The daily witness, 28 décembre 1909, mardi 28 décembre 1909

[" mi \u2018ed he La 2 + hy Wei deu ul en pis ly ) rit cts Foe Windy and Colder \u201ceo 7 Vol L, No.307.NOTHING SHORT oF - FILTRATION ANY USE.The Board of Health Consider Water and Power Co.'s Intake is Situated at the Worst Place Possible \u2014\u2014 TYPHOID'S RAVAGES.JERDUN, WITH A FILTRATION PLANT AND 10,000 POPULATION, HAS ONLY ONE CASE.-n was no mincing matters or around the bush.\u2019 in the discus- the typhoid cpidemic and its «5.the hospital authorities and {eal men at the conference held in \u201c Commerrce Building.Jways cunsidered that the water and Power Company's s.tuated at the worst pos- * said Dr.Lachapelle, pre- .\u201c2e Provincial Board of H : I: was recentiy reported to = + vondition, but may be re- - .mproved now, + -.+ nn use discussing any- os sory of filtration, th doctor =v« \u201c11, \u2018and preparations for ob- 1: < .nd installing a plant should » * rua at the earliest moment.A -~ _.public opinion would put the \u201cauncil in a better position to +o legislature for power to bor- w+.» necessary money tg go ahead +: ba undertaking.The city must .1 morally responsible at least «- vroviding the remedy for existing ens as well as furnishing ace Luudation for patients and nurses »rsyns who are too poor to pay Jem.Dube thought the aldermen 20s] be invited to attend the next rence, when an exchange of ques- the hospital and the authorities might result in much itenment on both sides and the -\u2018oninæ of improvement in the situ- «5 He ureeg the notification of the pib.v.by constant advertisement if ce 0ssary, to boil their drinking water.Dr.Jacques considered the matter of uch importance as to warrant the cargy in making announcements as to ne precautions from the pulpits tan 1ghout the city.FILTRATION AT VERDUN.G .E.Armstrong told the meet- ig \u201cnat Verdun, with a population of \u201c0 persons, and a filtration plant reporied only one case of typhoid.Worx people employed in the city wougit filtered water with them to drink.and he was.told that street car emprirees often got a supaly from Verdun for their homes.AN os SE ms in rte ck a to find the remedy \u20ac apply t Dr.LæchapeNs said tré Board of Health had recently organiied & new ipartment under a competent engi- wor, to study the waterworks, sources \" ve Panty w Me : supply, i \u2019 sewage disposal, aid to make analyses of the water \u201cipplied to various municipalities \"sroughout the- province.The question i; 10 how far the provincial \u2018board «aid go in forcing the city to act in \u2018ne present crisis he was not prepared \u201ca -av, but the subject was under Ccon- Ederution by the board's solicitors.CITY TO MOVE FIRST.Dr.Lachapelle, seen this afternoon, aii the Provincial Board of Health tai decided to await the action -of the avie authorities before they took any sep: about the typhoid epidemic.It wa: not the function of the Provincial Bosrd to advise, or even suggest, to the tv.what it should do; but if à nuisance existed, and the city refused to vmove it; or if a need arose which te city refused to meet, the provinciai authority would then be exercised.He thought public opinion, foll.-wing the publication of the facts regarding the typhoid epidemic, would be suilicient tb move the City Council to act.Ald.L.A.Lapointe, chairman of the Fir ance Committee, sald the subject.al not yet been taken up by his com- rite, and he had not been approach- +1 }v any one in regard to the matier.A meeting of the committee would be fe.to-morrow, he said, and no doubt + official representations would be ; us to the needs of the situation, H, had read the reports in the papers ni would be prepared to take what- \u201caction seemed in the public in- Ee The situation must be faced ~ and courageously and he believ- committee would rise to the oc- \u20ac sn le A of Laberge has given the me- + ~chouol inspectors instructions to t houses where typhoid fever Lus rred and endeavor to ascertain the » of the dixeaso.Louis Latberg>, medical officer of \u20184 favor = the establishment of a : pt 1 and a central bureau, condi \u201cbe scientifically treat Mode hn CALLS IT MURDER.Hiider Daw.C.E.who supports \u201cazery maintained by eminent Eng- tnd continental sanitarians, that « \\yphoid originates from\u2019 unflush- Mrs, décinres that the civic au- «= are guilty of murder as much body of men can be so held gener of auty.He says the 5 aonot be given that they \u2018did Low because, early last spring, \u201ci high anthoritjes on the sub- .demonstrated to a gathering mers of the Civie Hygiene Com- ad depariment officials how la hing was practised in the itive in England, with the decreasing typhoid cases to orate, cow adds LEI.that last winter, wi: recovering in the West- \u201cal, from an attack of fever, iid not be attributed to drink- - water, because he drank only yen brand of water brought \u2018ne mountains, he told the : the institution that ne be- Montreal epidemic, then caused by foul sewers.ttle of it would be found creer or other low levels of tu: it would prevail and re- nz the residents of the ele- \u2018ten.He now holds that \u201cey has come true, and \u201cua the present conditions contentions to be correct.\u2018at disease ts in the air as H tne water.+ his good faith and disin- +-x in the matter Mr.Daw vl to design and supervise\u2019 + lotion.of flushing tanks, the \u201che have in England, charg- mz for his fees unless the permanently reduced to at \"the ordinary rate.He La + grind and offers his expert vithout charge to prove his Dr.Starkey, of McGill, has QE : \u2018serious damage | was done.PS ° mm mg SLIPPED: ON SIDEWALK, ui JL Johnsen.of St.Lambert, ] slipped walk at Toe corner \"SE Ben a Bk of tire most \u20acx-; és Wisevere.rad a ay i ime \u2018hice their id 22 ee \u2018Rabbi Glazer, das St.Teel street, ot heir plight by\" she) p= \u2018by Mr.Recorder Dupuis until to-mor= } and disorderly, and with assaulting the Fronot and Ernest-| the\u2019 Practice\u2019 E TO BLAME.|: last evening | 1.the consequences.The consequences sesm to have bi fe understand that = \u2014 sis : ,Demontigny ax\u201d chidf- \u2014edkt editor of the C BUDG \u201cMunicipal tg\u2019 son.tie \u2018Ines inai- | cated above.\u2018# 7, The meeting gf Édéneil on Thursday a SLEEPERS.Narrowly Escaped Death \u2018Early Tus Morning.I série | fo CÈT THHOUÜH THE FLAMES.\u201cMr.R.C.Harry, Mrs.Barry and a servant girl, Had.an \u2018extremely narrow @scape.froin -being burned to death this théthing, when\u2019 their house, at 139 Hutchison street, near Prince Arthar street, vas completely destroyed uv fire.- The outbreak occurred about four o'clock this morning.- The sleep chpants were aroused by.the Le smoke which filled the rooms, and has- \u201ctilly donning some clotliing, they en- \u2018deavored to- escape: The .interior of the building was-already in \u2018lames, anc ît-wes with 'alficulty that: they succeeded\u2019 in getting down thé.stairway and out into the cold.Had.they heen \u2018a few minutes later it would have been impossible to make their way through the flames, and a terrible tragedy would have to be recorded.An alarm was sent in, and the fire krigade quickly responded, hut it: was impossible to subdue the flames before everything in the interior had been de- ætroyed.' ; Mr.Barry is a member of the firm of John Barry & Sons, fruit dealers, 179 McG#l street.= He is married to a daughter of -ex-Mayor McShäne.thous caused will probably total Fev sand dollars: PARISIAN PHILOBOPHER Prof.Le Verrier, Youngest Momber of Paris University, Will\" Lecture Hare.Spot.Chârses \u2018 Te Verrier, the young- st member of the faculty of the Uni- Sersity of Paris, arrived in New York on \u2018La Touraine, to lecture.to the Federation de l\u2019Alllance Francaise of.the Unitéd States and Canada.on philosophy and literature.He will ap- + pear-in Montreal shortly.Among his aubjects - are, .\u2018The innovations of.the stage in France in the nine th ven- { tury.Evolution of moral Hens France.from 1850 to 1910;} \u201cThe théatre: || of \u2018suffertng- and : forki \u2018The | money question in France and the part.played dy money in the soolety of today,\u2019 \u2018The philosophy.of.-paietÿ and the ion of laughter Cite phllosopbers ur stahdtdifiér was Urbain Le \u2018Verrier, the\u2019 astronomer who discovered \u2018the ~ planet Neptune.\u2019 The grandson Is not:'yet thirty.He is accompanied, by \u201chig wife, who, under the.\u2018namesef Mars Louise Girauit, | writes short stories and oa economical subjeéts, is a- playwright, amateur actress, play manager.and arganizer of the Cercle.Dramatique.8 in whose productions.she.wil) act again + at.the\u2019 Carnegie.Lyceum.When she: was frat bere .a few years ago-she produce d at the, \u201cCarnegie Lyceum \u2018Le Hild,\u201d with,.pla 1yers.eleated -at the Settlement House in dreenwich street.| Pro x Verrier\u2019a soute w who al htm.js Jean.P aps\u201d w Îler, son of pled the commefce and Industries of e United: \u2018States in 1902 and 1903; i rote \u2018The Great 8: As a Great prom 19° Visit of the ea aviators to France, aiid bhead- \u201céû the French syndicate that powuit thé rights in\u2019 to the Oh there ot.Le \u20ac machine.erriér.20d is wife will re- mais fi \u2018America -f months: Te a TOR THE.CHARITY.\"BALL.| Hutchison Street Residents | | tion of alderman._ - | Lazare Welilér.pf.Paris; wWho- investi-.p A MILLION IS MISSING Societe des Beaux Arts Had Only $4000 With Which to Pay Immense Claims _ \u2014 COURT WILL TRY TO FIND OUT WHERE 8AVINGS OF POOR PEOPLE VANISHED.TO.A case of exceptional interest will.oe heard in the Court of Special Sesstâhs to-morrow, when the Crown \u201ccorf- mences its action against the \u2018Setete des Beaux Arts.This was a society which sdveitised that it would pay phenomenal rates of \u2018interest to patrons who pasa tn -contain amounts: weekly.2a me as vl some instance, it is as paid: The payments were supposed to extend over a period of eight years.Thousands upon thousands of poor peoble invested their hard-earned savings, in many cases every cent they bad, in this brilliantly promising venture, In some cases, it is said, interest was paid.The full ramifications of the Societe are not known definitely, or exactly what was done with the money | that was taken in.It appears, litow- ever, that when the books were audited | \u2018by order of the Court, only between : three and four thousand dollars were found to pay claims which, it is said.amount to over a million dollars.\u2018 It is alleged that much of the money paid in was paid out to directors of the company under various names.Lost | year alone there is over a hundred awl | 4 sixty thousand dollars to be accounted | for.The Court will attempt to fina out who it was paid to.DIED IN HIS SLEIGH.Cabman\u2019s Body Found on Stand at Corner of Mance and Sherbrooke Streets.The dead body of Harry Dwyer, 29 years of age, a cabman on the stand at the corner of Mance and Sherbrooke streets, was found in his sleigh {at nine o'clock this morning in the yard of his father at the rear of 49 Benoit street, near Dorchester street.There were no marks on the body that would lead to a suspicion of foul play.It is thought that heart failure was the cause of death.The body has been removed to the morgue, and Coroner McMahon will inquire into the circumstances.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014t\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2018EARLY CLOSING\u2019 OFFENDERS.Mr.Recorder Dupuis this morning found John W.Reid .apd J.Caplan gujlty of having offended.against the early closing by-law by: or Th he their stores.open on December law only absclves tHëm- ne : che let law.Sai \u2014\u2014 ST.LOUIS ANNEXATION.The town of St.Louis will be an- - nexed to the city on Jan 1 next, but it: will not have a representative on the\u2019 City Council before February 1.Mr.Turcot, the present mayor of the town, and Councillor J.P.L.Berube are spoken of as candidates for the posi- \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2018BOGUS TAX COLLECTOR.The public is: warned against a bo, \u2018téx collector, who is in the city trying te collect the city water tax.- He has succeeded in three instances to \u2018collect money under false pretences, and today the detectives are looking for him.All credited collectors carry an official badge.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014t\u2014\u2014\u2014 STOLE A CLOAK.\u201cA.Barette, of.Champlain street, pleaded guilty this- merning, before Judge Bazin, of stealing a cloak from St Catherine street east, kept by Mr.J: Scriber.He will be santenced \u201can Wednesday.\"serre a \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 FOR USING.THE KNIFE, Doôminico\" Pellèto.or.Pelficiore, who.tn a row \u2018on Dupré lane, some weeks ago cut open the.face; neck and:back.of a men named Smit) \u201cwho, &s he told Judge Leet, \u2018was as § ds Judge, I only \u2018had onedrink:' wi _sentericed to one month! \u2018in jah by 3 today.2 STABLE | Aire ~destr trayed.] 0 stable.last oyare at iss ) venue, \u201cnear.Napoledh.Site ; towed _by Mrs.F.Debé » firé.\u2018brirade mor prone thé\" flaînes adjoining spréudin préperty.\u201csue: CHIEF SUMMONSED.\u2018Sub-Chief Brieré of the fire department was served with a summons yesterday td appear in-court td answer to a charge of asadultihg Lambert Tanguay, an ambulapee driver, last \u2018Thursday.The \u2018summons\u2019 18° retprnable to-morrow.DROPPED DEAD WHILE $MOKING.| While smoking and.talking to a friend last evening, O.Giroux, 63 years of age, living at 3181 St.Lawrence Boulevard, Mile \u2018End, dropped.dead froni heart failure, The case.wag \u2018disposed .of by Coronñer MoM ahon \u2018thts | morning.: KNOCKED\" DOWN.BY.aLEGH, \u2018While crossing \u2018at ithe cotner of Me: GiiL.street and WMtatoria square Mast |- evening, : Thomas Caursol,.of .41\" St.Manique \u2018street, was knocked \u2018down by a sleigh.and had ta be taken Home.\u2018The sleigh was driven by Joseph De- lorme, of 100 Maisonneuve street.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NEW FIRE LIEUTENANT.The Fire Committee has appointed Fireman C.Senecal, of Beaubin street fire station,\u2019 to the rank of lieutefiant,: in place of E.Brosseau promoted to a captainey a.fortnight agd, vd by the\u2019 resignation of Captain Purresne.ree SHIPPING, a a: Hot, ti: of, - = *lanel than po.majority at all res AT toéres: that th og Bi knee, 1 ord CHRISTMAS TRUCE BROKEN The Election Campaign in Britain Renewed With Vigor.POSTERS OF BOTH PARTIES TURN LONDON INTO A VAST PICTURE GALLERY.A UNIONIST ORGAN'S FORECAST OF THE ELECTION.np a WER Sp dS Pp tp - (Canadian Associated Press.) London, Dec.27.\u2014The short Christmas truce will be broken to-morrow when the campaign will be renewed with the greatest vigor.There will be 10,000 meetings this week alone, 4,600 of which will be Unionist.1t is the great poster campaign and scores of millions of leaflets have been issued.Mr.Balfour is convaiescent, but Lord Milner is unwell.A modest article in the \u2018Morning Post\u2019 expresses the view that the London home counties are safe.It estimates that the following will be the result of the elections; Unionists, 278; Liberals, 260: Nationalists, 83; Labcr, 49.The \u2018Post\u2019 editorially thinks the raising of the Constitutional issue hus been a failure, und urges the Unionists to bring tariff reform to the front vigorously on every occasion, and victory will then be assured.The \u2018Daily News\u2019 thinks the Tdberal proapects in London are much brighter than a month back.The Liberal bus withdrawn his candidature in East Manchester, and a Socialist from Seutn Bristol, thus leaving a \u2018straight fight.* London, Dec.28.\u2014With the walls and fences covered witn highly colored posters and placards, London is being turned into a vast picture gallery.The Tories can claim more artistic work for their posters tran can the Liberals.Among the new phrases exhibited are the following : \u2014\u2018Radicais shouted against Chinese labor in the \u2018Transvaal.\u2019 \u2018Radicals dont shout Chinese pork for the British, why 2° \u2018Who shouted for Chinese slavery ?The Radicals.\u2019 \u2018Who shouted for Chinese pork ?\u2019 \u2018Have you heard of Radical free trade Chinese pork 7° Mr.Ben Tillett, a well known trade Unionist leader, in the \u2018Leader\u2019 protests strongly against the surrender of Labor to Liberalism.He says mutual arrangements are not only a surrender of principle but a betrayal of trust and authority.7 is Dotter A well-known Liberal with saying that à half than breadr-and It is better tô have 3 Morkty \u2018of Soclalists and Labor t rough sagury: te Miner will be urable to padrèes omy meetings for a fortnight ?Watkl RESULTS (See page 5.) The following additional results of the Christmas examinations have been posted at MeGill: \u2019 (Caloulus: 8evond Year.) Class I.\u2014Davis, J.8., Tebbutt, O.etn, J., Stroud, Hayward J.od, D.L., and \u2018Randolph, T.Class 1I.\u2014DesRosiers, A, Brown, J., Peden, E., Norris, J.H.; Jeliy.E.and Ryan, E., equal; Dugsan, HL.H., equal; Calkins, H., L.W.equal: Barnes, I.Heward, IF.B., equal; Beauvais, Hutchins, G.R., Hyman, Ww.Ss, mot, E.Cc.and May.ww.equal.Class 111.\u2014Boyd, J, B., Clark, J.&, and Skelton, R., equal; Futterer, E., and Lesage, G.W.equal; Weber, K.R.; Hall, J2.*.Lefobvré E., and Rolo: sen, C.equal; Boyd, W.W., and Shaw, D.A.e ual; Hugh-Jones! E.B., McGannon.LEs and Schippell, H.F., equal: Abbott, W.H.\u2026.Armstrong, J.D.Cummer, R.L, Robb, J.D., and Whittall, F.R, equal; Burr, A.V.; Bell D.À.5.and Downes, ; Johnson, G.H, Kearns, J.A.L.Veilleux, W.H., and Wheatley, J.H., equal; Darling, G., and Renroldson, -D.-B.,.equal: Biddulph, R., Cash.G.-5., Hugessen, A.K., Lapp, = Ww.McDougal, C.H.McMahon J, A.and Warburton, -J.Al.equal; Gnaedin- ger, ¥.T., Goode.T.C., and: Kirby, s.E, ual: Casey.J.Li cooper C H.B.Me- I 5 and Prince.P.G.equal; El Hatt, A.Gartir, C.H., Go- hier, à 7 frannington.A-B.Lynen, J.A, McCamnion.-J.W.McCuaig.J.It, McMaster, H.G., Reinhardt, R.A.Sal: Mi J.N.Starke.H.M.Traversy, V.L, and Woodyatt CF K., equal.\u2018(Free Assaying: \u201cThird Year.) D.: Eldridge, G.\u2018Class [.\u2014Galloway, J.- 8,:; Cummins, P.M.Class IL.\u2014\u2014Jones; G: C.; Murray, C.4 Evans, A.ele Galloway, Cc.ct Ross, < Salles, C: 5 Cu \u2018Hasbrouck, B.: Robin- * Class I1].\u2014Buisson, A.: Mallory, F.K.; Holland, F.C.; Foch, K.C.: Wunsch, SF.S.; White, J.A.G.: Young, W.L.; Portier.F, Ad Glasma her, W.A.: Lip- sey, J.: Wilt is, F.'8.: Gâäritshore, W.12 (Org.Chemistry; Third Y Class I\u2014Walker, G.H.Class II.\u2014Macaulay, J.R.Cla si Metallurays Third Year, | \u2014 ge, G.Gallowa J.D.; Wunsch, D.s.> Class\u2019 11.\u2014Foss, a.Walker; G.H.P.; Boyd, L.C.Class HL \u2014Oughtred, L.W.: Glan- ear.) \u2018I macher, W.A, Stevenson, E, P., equal; \u2018Macaulay, JR, Murray, G.equal; Galloway, C.C,; Evans, A.J.L: Gart- shore M, K K.C.\u2026 equal: Has- rout B Lipsey.Ja Robinson, D.S.\u2014\u2014 pre THE CANADIAN.TRAINING SHIP.\u2018Ottawa.Dec.28.\u2014It is understood that the price, which the government, subject to the approval of Parliament, has agreed to pay the Admlralt; for the second-class cruiser \u2018Rainbow,\u2019 which wil be used as a training ship, is approximately: a quarter of g mile lion: dollars.This Agure will includa the repairs now being made in one of \u2018thé Admiralty dockyards.Tie Rainbow\u2019 was ropstructed In 1891 at a cost of $940,000.er TO-DAY'S FOOTBALL.(Canadian Associated Press.) .London, Dec.28.\u2014To-day's footbal} results gone: \u2014First League\u2014Notts \u2018County 2.Blackburn Rovers 2; Sheffield United 4, Liverpool 2; \"Bristol City 2.Sunderland 3.ond League\u2014Barnsley 5.Derby County 1; Birmingham 0.Bradford 1; Lincoln City 0, Leeds City 60 pe aad xen Re Joss yi w .Bother, a ton Town.4, À É-is announced that\u2018the committ oa , J Brentford 2.\" Brighton and Hove 1, of the: Charity Bal Ball intends 1 introducing Tonian.anh.sre 7 Bristol Ro\u2019 0; Coventry.City 4, ; for fhe.comfort = rio DREAD.Ll.| odie ngera, 03 Clty p: on Hibernian., tom Lasgow, +s Dee.Reading t; §winduu Totes, 7, Nor- .; \u2018Pomeran ee 2» i Sih id 13; orshateton.5 Wat-, artist & ga SL EIR 0 | fora 0 EE the | Ca Ne er s 35 4 R : .i.io the ira = \u20ac ne ae EARRivEs.Jes\u2019 -ordipary : Tunisian Se 3 ep.o, 4 CN ancers.am | Catth ap.BE .= en pe Ci ES ne.or Ered Xb.3 a TN + 0 POUR A we .a, #£ Nae .dN.> Li \u2018 TOURS, ee a CEE 1 Bra en a, 8 or Le =; de 7 du pme ie EEE TR tre lee pp te Tm i om etm hg Lits 2-10 0e me Rss pe ET EN Sp rer pA = Ahr Oy dis \"2 be Zp ~ \" ag rd oy v marie - \u201d \" Pay n i i RRR pt EEN 3 Lo I a \u2018 ; me oy age FT cu, Ac nat Nh CE = | = 8 a.eer: ques ri Ce Ta E pci x SL py) ER RS hi a aa Core eve AS ig SY - PT vets REA - ; : i -\u2014 ST == \" .\u2018 : : a mn THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS, TUESDAY, DEUSMBER 28, 197) EY] INVESTMENT ~~ OUTLOOK FOR 1910, GOOD Unprejudiced students of the financial and stock market situation believe that while there is, and always will be, some unfavorable features to disturb sentiment, yet in a broad way the trend is toward improvement.It is manifest that confidence is growing in the con- versatism of the leaders in banking and industrial activity.Every day seems tn show an increasing tendency in both commercial and financial circles to_enlarge the volume of operations.The crops are made, and in their entirety they exceed in value all past records.Abroaa the outlook is becoming more encouraging, as reflected hy the easier position of money and the lessened nolitical unsettlement.As we approach nearer the close of the year security prices are likely to be mere irregular, although in view of the larger corporate earning power and the January interest and dividend disbursements, the demand, especially for the higher srade of investment shaves, should he measurably increased.Canada as well as the United States fs inclined to anticipate great things in - 1910.it is believed that our foreign trade will be heavily in our favor, that our credit abroad will be stronger than ' ever before, that our securities will be \u2019 in greater demand by Continental investors, and that a higher standard of corporate management will make for even more investment at home.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 The stock market continues fairly broad and active, with fairly hign prices being maintained.No special leader monopolized the market this morning, Iron Common, Scotia, Quebec Railway, Richelieu, Shawinigan, and Toronto Street were amongst \u2018he most active issues.Jron opened and closed at 71.Quebec Ralls at 65 1-2, Richelieu 94 1-2.Toronto Street rose 1-4 point to 129.Scotia closed weaker at 70 3-4, Shawinigan opened 102 1-2 and closed 102 7-8.Others of the leaders sold at moderate prices.New York.Dec.28.\u2014The market was generally strung, New York Central being conspicuous, while Harriman and Stee} were somewhat heavy.Rock Island opened lower, and on heavy selling declined over two points below last night's close, and this break somewhat unsettled the rest of list.No: much liquidation took place.It acts somewhat water logged, that is, it seems to run into stock on all advances, while on the declines it receives good support.The Rock Island episode, while still much talked of, will probably soon be forgotten, and \u20183 but little of a factor so far as the course of the market is concerned at present.Sales, noon, 343,000.A MOBNING BOARD, Error yesterday a.m.\u2014525 Reserve at 4.00 should read 225 at 4.00.Error yesterday p.m.\u2014150 Power at 133% should read 150 at 133%.iron common\u2014660 at 71, 50 at 70%, 35 1.et 7 IlJinois pref\u201430 at 92., Shawinigan Rights\u2014100 at 10.,- Quebec Ry\u201428 at 65%, 75 at 65,-275 at 65 Vv .Énverters\u201450 at 44.cotia\u201485 at 71, 1 at 73, 80 \u2018at 71, 50 at 70%.Pacific Rights\u20145 at 9%, 10 at 10, 39 at 9%.Crown Reserve-\u2014100 at 4.03.Pacific\u201450 at 179%.Iron pref\u201445 at 137.Toronto Ry\u201425 at 138%, 375 at 129.Richelieu\u201425 at 94%, 125 at 943%, 50 t 94%.C.C.Cotton\u201463 at 60, 25 at 59%.Telephone\u20141 at 1486.Twin City\u201450 at 116.Rupber\u2014100 at 95.Power\u2014535 at 134.50 at Ti%, 220 at 9%, Shawinigan\u2014100 at B0 at 102% 21 days.itch common\u201425 at 104%.: : \u2018ex tile common\u201425 at T0, 25 at 70.Tektile pref\u2014>5 at 1035, 1 at 106%.Dom.Cotton bonds-\u2014$5500 at 104.Bank of Montreal\u201430 at 252.Ar OON B OARD.Steel common\u2014500 at 71, 25 at 70%, 20 at 71.10 at 71.1235 at 71.Lake of Woods\u201430 at 114, 50 at 143.Power\u2014205 at 134.Richalieu\u201425 at 944, 75 at 9412.Textile\u201425 at 704, 25 at 70%: Scotia\u2014225 at 70%.Crawn\u2014900 at 4.10.Ogi!vie\u201425 at 1394.M.S.R.\u20144 at 217, oronto Ry\u2014100 at 130, 25 at 1293.40 at 129%.50 at 129%.Rubber\u201425 at 94.25 at 95.Quebec Ry\u201450 at 65%, 10 at 67.Seo\u2014Tô at 139%.i Se C.P.R.\u201450 at 179%, 2K at 179%.Twin City\u201450 at 116, 125 at 115%.C.P.R.Rights\u20145 at 9%, 180 at-'at, 1 at 10, 20 at 9%, 20 at 9%.Cobalt Issues Quiet Following are the Mining Exchange Quotations furnished by Messra Fisher end DesRosiors, ock brokers, to the \u2018Witness\u2019: Bid.Asked.4% 4% British American .% Beaver ,.0.+.36% 36% Chambers Ferland .40 4014 Cobalt Lake ee se se aw =» 14% 14% Cobalt Central .24 23 Crown Reserve .405 407 City of Cobalt .,, 52% 53% Floyd te +0 se se se en BD T% TOrter .vc os + + 33 36 Green Meehan .12 14 John Black .+.13 15 Kerr Lake .+.868 869 La Rose {ssing :! de en 92 498 © Nipissing .¢¢ +.2 21 McKinley .¢ .82 317 Nipissing .\u2026.1085 1100 Nova Scotia .+.+.44 45, Otisse .te +.\u2026\u2026.\u2026 20 20% Otisse Currie .ce vs 5 10 Peterson Lake ./ .23 33% Silver Alliance .\u2014 25 Silver Queen ., .21% + 13% Silver Leaf .13 14 Tretheway .eo oo oo ».142 143 Temiskaming .2.723% 72% Farah .ve +.+ oo 23 24 Tuion Pacific .\u2026.9% 10% Goodwin Lake .+4 .o 10 11 MORNING BOARD.Crown Reserve, 500 at 404.La Rose, 10 Oat 495.British Am., 2000 at 44.Chambers, 100 at 41.Scotia, 100 at 43.Gould, 2000 at 2, 2000 at 2%, 1000 at 8%.\u2018Beaver, 100 at 37, 2000 at 36%.\u2014\u2014\u2014 + Wall Street Quiet \u2014 New York, Dec.28\u2014Rock Island weakened to 49% this afternoon; the rest of the market was about steady and quiet, United States Steel, 9034; Union Pacific 3033, Boo.139% ; Copper, 894, and C.P.R.TRAIN ON FIRE Two carriages of the train which leaves Bonaventure station at 6.15 were set on fire last night by an explosion of gas which occurred while the reservoirs were being filled.The flames were easily extinguished, but the train was delayed half an hour, and, Mr.Sam Brinkley, the driver, was burned about the face.-\u2014-\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014r INJURÉD BY EXPLOSION.While working at the Montreal Quarry Works on Laurier avenue, this afternoon, a laborer named Lemarche had his eyes badly injured by the premature explceion of a blasting charge.He was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital.It is not thought he will lose his sight.\u2014\u2014 DEAD BODY FOUND.The dead body of an unknown man about 40 year: of age was discovered in the stable of James Tomalty, 645 Clarke avenue, near Berhard \u201cavenie, this afternoon.of SS \u2014\u2014 , SEVEN EHILDREN BURNED YO : SM SRATHZ LT Le parned 10 depth at Brier \u2018were 0.de at Brkes- Sills, Ps, near here, late fost Nhe 102%, 75 at 102%, \"| Jan.21.80 INCREASE ITS INFLUENCE Five Seats May be Sold\u2014Ap- plication for Membership \u2014Future Prospects.The increase of financial and stock activity in this city during the past year has been such that much enlargement has been rendered necessary in many branches of trade.The Stock Exchange is now compelled to extend its bounds to mit of the entrance of five more rmhem- her, or in ôthet .words, of the sale of this number of seats.This is a compliment to President, W.J.Turpin, and the exeeu- tive of the exchange, as evidence of their energy of promoting the interests of this'cen- _ tre of stock trading.in general, and the members in particular.This morning $24.900~ was bid for a seat with no success.The application of Mr.W.Belleau, of Quebec, for membership, has been filed, and, unless some member chooses to dispose of his seat, the Quebec applicant will, have to buy a seat belonging to the stock exchange, which holds flve seats in trust, for the benefit of members.Nane of these seats can be sold for less than $25,000.The seats now outstanding total fifty-five and all are in active use.This must be accepted as evidence of progress and prosperity on \u2018change, and an Indication of future growth and influence.Committee at Work on Rock Island Episode.\u2014\u2014\u2014 .New York, Dec.28\u2014Witbout delay the Stock Exchange committee of three began its investigation to-day into the hidden causes which sent Rock \u2018Island common stock daring for a advance of thirty points yesterday, en the exchange, and then dropping back again to its starting price.causing a \u2018near\u2019 panic and a squeeze of the short sellers The investigators have full power to act, and will endeavor to trace the origin of the buying orders.The report of the Hughes Commission on stoek exchange.practices is now in the governor's-heands, and has not been given tô the legislature.MSR.Big Earnings Montreal Street Rallway earnings for week ending Dec.25, show very favogable Mr.Turpin.results, as follows: Increase.Sunda re ee $7,270.40 $ 647.11 Mond ee oo oo 11,590.59 $762.32 Tuesd « a.os ee 11,643.01 91.62 Wednébd4} .+ .11,216.44 56.13 Thurs&ax\u201d.+ o.11,995.45 * 857.76 Friday .«.oe os os 14,487.43 6,805.07 Saturday.+s o.8,452.90 *1,235.10 Decrease.Is C.PR, Interested ?Le A despatch from Saco, Maine, statés that the CecCorkle Abattiir Comipañiy, capitalized at $6,000,000, has secured 1,000 acres on both sides of the Boston and Maine Railway on the banks of thé Saco River.It {5 stated that the Canadian Pacific Railway are back- Ing the scheme In order.that way develop a port to ship immense quantities of beef to South America.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 To Pay 6 Percent Information was received on the Stock Exchange th;s morning ta the effect that Twin City.mon dividend will be increased to 6 percent on Friday next.-\u2014pmm_ Winnipeg Wheat Wheat prices at Winnipeg had a steady decline to-day as follows: : Dec.May.: Open .se ++ 0e + ,, 101% 104% High .+ + +.++ oe Low 2.+0 vu eo \u2014 \u2014_\u2014 Close .100% 103% \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AMERICAN LIGHT & POWER CO.New York, Dec.28.\u2014The Americar Light & Power Company has declare} an initial dividend, quarterly of one and a half percent on the preferred stoci, payable Jan.3.Books close Dec 2x, and reopen Jan.4.BIG BLOCK OF STOCK.Lehigh Valley stock just bought, together with the amount they alrealy Valley stock that Dréxel & Co.has ever held.LEHIGH VALLEY STOCK.announced that Drexel & Co.have acquired the Lackawanna\u2019's holdings of \u2018I the Lehigh Valley stock.\u2014{rpmmm_\u2014 OTTAWA BOARD OF GONTROL.Ottawa, Dec.28\u2014Mr.P.M Draper; one of the ten aspirants for a place on the Board of Control, has retired from the contest.Mr.Draper is secretary \u2018| of the Dominion Trades and Laber Council., CONSOLS AND -RYS.London, Dec.28.\u20144 p.m.\u2014Consots for money, 82 3-4; do for account, 82 13-16.C.P.R., 184 1-2; G.T.R, 21 3-4.= MONEY ON CALL.New York, Dec.28.\u2014Noon\u2014Money on call firm at 5 1-4 percent.Prime mercantile per 5 to 5 1-2 percent.Exchanges, $339,544,604.FILED NOTICE.The Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, has filed at Harrisburfg notice of an increase in capital stack from ten to twenty million.hi \u2014 WALL STREET AT $ PM, New York, Dee.28.\u2014Wall Street.\u2014-2 p.m.\u2014The demand continued to run ~ Is usually not much following.wise , Pittsburg Ceal preferred rose 4%, common 1, the Lake Brie and Western stocks 13%, and Union Pacific, Toledo, St.Louis and Western and Great Northern ore certificates 1.Monars.J ations sa follows: \"0OTt the Cloalng 00H pen.High.Low.Qlose.| Whee: ee.119 119% 117% 118 cotas .111% 112% 110% 110%b orn\u2014 Dec.63% 84% 6% 82 ds 10.0 07X 67X 66h GX Jods wea BY MB 4 44 | May + 6h 46% 464 15% Porg\u2014 21.85 21.55 21.80 May.24.90 21.00 21.53 21.63 | 1a 2 1 40.12 M0 01 seit de RER evi A * AST 1 se at 862,75 Philadelphia, Pec.28.\u2014The block of |.held, makes the largest total of Lehigh |.Philadelphia, Dec.28.\u2014It is officialiy | 1+ New York, Dec.States.Smelting .& Refininig Company mostly for minor stocks in which there | Others | the market was at a standatilt.-i >.Pr Ras ao Bop AST Ra AE 3 ° Ted Le RSON NOVA SCOTIA \u201cARE DENIED Reports have been in circulation recently regarding big re-organization plans, which, it was \u2018asserted, would be carried out in the near future by the directorate of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company.These rumors have ben reflected in the strength of Scotia stock during the past week, and.in certain quarters some credence was given.to the \u2018tips.\u2019 .However, several financiers in the city who are close to the management of the Nova Scotia Company disclaim any knowledge of such plans.Indeed, they emphatically deny that there Is any truth.in the different reports heard in the street.- The \u2018Witness\u2019 this morning wired Mr.Robert E.Harris, president of the company, st Halifax, requesting information as to the truth of the reor- £anization-statements, and in reply, re- celved the: following message: \u2019 know nothing of the plans of reorganization in circulation.\u2019 | There was a well accredited statement made to-day that it is likely that Messrs.Rodolphe Forget, M.P.and W.M.Aitken, of Montreal, will shertly accept seats on the board of directors of the Nova Scotia Corpora- on.5, 873.5% FES pe Would Only Lcse : $500,000, Says Patjen A despatch received on \u2019Change to-day from Chicago states that Mr.James A.Patten is said to be short of between 10,- 000,000 and 12,000,000 bushels of corn.A group of corn bulls composed largely of men whom Mr.Patten squeezed severely recently In cotton, has been organized to keep the pricé of corn up.For delivery on and before Dec.31.conservative esi- mates of Mr.Patten's sales are 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 bushels, on which he has lost an average oY about 5 cents per bushel.\"Part of this, however.has by mutual consent been delivery.Mr.Patten says: \u2018My paper losses so to have been only $200.000, and, even if corn should go up 10 Gents between now and the time of the May delivery, I would lose only about $500,000.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 To Spend $100,000,000.ChXago.Dec.28.\u2014President Buffing- ton, of the Illinois Steel Company, says that the United States Steel CorpdYation is planning $100,000,000 new plant expenditures in the territory from South Chicago to Gary, Ind., during the coming year, which will glve employment to possibly 5000 additional men.- Heavy Financing.transferred over to the May \u201cOf the $25,000,000 three-year 5 percént notes of the American Telephonee Com- pans, coming due on Jan.1 next it is.be- imated that the company itself has boyght, or there is held by bankers for account of the company close to $12,000,- 000, leaving about $13,000,000 which must be paid off at par in cash.The notes purchased ahead will show the company a very material saving.The refunding of these notes was provided for at the time the compdny sold the $50,000,600 convertible bonds, bringing that issue up bo Lhe full authorized amount of $1B0,- Toronto Cobalts Toronto.Dec.28,\u2014Following are the sales of Cobalt securities on the Standard ming etchangé this morning: 4 Beaver, 2400 at 36%, 50 Oat 36%.Big ix! 1000 at-714.\"Chambers, 2000 at.44 { mEity, 50) at-53.500 at ne, Clary 5 at se Criwn, 100 at-445.eat- Northern, 2900 at 1044.Kerr Like, at 855, 150 at 870, 125\"At 8 .La Rose, 100 at 492%.Little Nip, 300 at 214.Nip.3 at 1100.Scotia, 600 nt 44, 500 at 4355, 500 at 4414.Otisse 4000 at 23% future, 600 at 223%.800 at 28.Rochester, 4500 at 18, 1500 at 17%, 3000 at 19 future.500 at 17%.Leaf.200 at 13%, 300 at 13%.Bar, 1000 at 18 future.Temiskaming, 500 at 73 500 at.723, 2000 at 72%.Watts, Tigo a ; INCREASE IN CAPITAL.Albany, Dec.28.\u2014Buffalo and Susdhe- hanna Iron Company has certified to the secretary of state an increase in He saptet A100k from $1,000,000 -to: $4,500,- \u2018WATIONAL COPPER BANK.| New York, Dec.28.\u2014National Copper Bank declared regular quarterly dividend of 2 percent, payable on Jan.29 to stock of record Dec.31.This dividend is ap= plicable only to the old capital.eee .MOLSONS BANK BRANCH.\u2018The management of the Molsons Bank announces that it has opened a branch of \u2018the bank at Portage avenue, Winnipeg.\u2018 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 LEXIGE VALLEY CO.Philadelphia, Dec.28.\u2014Tha directors of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.have declared a.specjal scrip dividend of 15 percent, payable March 1,- .1910, to stockholders of record Janjary 1, 1910.\u2018This meaps a distribution of 3,150,000 among the stockHolders.BANK MERGER COMING: .New Y ork, Dec._28,\u2014Arrangements, ave been completed.to merge the -Mechanics\u2019 -Natiqnal and National Copper banks.: La TE © TWIN CITY INOREASE.Twin City earnings from January 1 to November 30, crow net increase of 9526, - avo DIVIDEND.ON COMMON.28.~The United: declared.the regular quarterly dividend of one percent on the common, and one and three-quarters percent un the preferred stock.TS INVESTMENT SECURITIES The: Royal\u2019 Ssourities Corporation owns and investors, investigated .The results of our \u2018m- \u2018 \u201cRoyal Securities \u201cCorporation Limes 164 St.James St., Montreal > ea 0p 11.fay ove ee 11e bs ni Bl Hag RRIF TE IRN TY PESKY 1'6d to 2s 34; | magnt Won.Zora Strathoons snd Mount Hon Sir George Drummond, X.C.M.G., IR.B.A _Greenshields.: -' David Morrice, - : = B Hays : James Ross.Maittax\u2014Quebec\u2014Toronto.| = Bowtie Meme Lo \u2014 1 TO TAKB SEAT: + ON US.RUB - DIRECTORATE.Mr.D.L.McGibbon Has Been Elected Member of Rubber Board\u2014Säle of Bonds.\u201c POLICY OF LQCAL RUBBER \u2018Dj- RECTORATE AS ANNOUNCED \u201cIN \"WITNESS; APPROVED.io Lo ; \u2018 - gp \u201d The-officlal wripduicement made in the \"Witnéds iyesterdäy or the authority of Mr.D; \u2018Lorne McGibliän, to -the effect that contrary to published rumors and street Commas: dhe Canadian Consolidated Company will ngt increase its dividend on the common stack or give a bonus to shareholders during the coming year, gave rise to much comment in financial and stock circles.The attitude taken by Mr.McGibbon in this matter is to he commended.He favors extensions and improvements to the present plant, giving scope for greater revenue, while employing a much larger staff, thus increasing the.output capacity.He has studied, together with the other directors, the situation from every point of view, and has concluded that in carrying out contemplated enlargements to the works, the diréetorate will \u201cserve the best interests of the shareholders for the time being at least.The appointment of Mr.McGibbon as a director of the United States Rubber Corporation, has been made.and he will, ac- rording to his own statement, take his seat at the board éarly in the new year.tive to the directorate of the big rubber concern paturally draws more.interest on the part af Canadians to the United States Rubber Company.In Mr.McGib- bon Canadian shareholders will be well looked after, hesiges giving the rubber industry an air of international activity.Business this vear has been unprecedented.and the United States Corporation and its subsidiary company,-the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company,will have gratifying reports for thelr shareholders, while a continuation of the present trade outlook is predicted for an indefinite period.Local \u2018shareholders of the United States Rubber Company have received a letter, giving the privilege to those of record of Jan.15 of subscribing to first preferred to b percent of holdings, at $110.It is also proposed to sell to a syndicate $5,- 000.000 first mortgage bonds at par.half now and half on or before Dec.20, 1910.The syndicate io whom the bonds will be \u2018sold is headed by President S.P.Colt, and includes other directors.They agree tc lend, the company $2,500,000 on also agree to take and pay for at $110 all the preferred not taken by the stoékhold- ers.As there are 37,370 shares of first preferred in the trewsury -and $5.000,0000 \u20ac percent bonds, this provides for raising $9.000.000 approximately in cash unless the directors oppose the sale to the syndicate of the second lot of bonds.- It is stated that increase and extensio of the business, including acquisition of properties during - 1908, has meant increasing cash requirements, especially in view of the unprecedented rise ih crude rubber and corresponding increase in cash locked up In materials and.manufactured stock awaiting sale, Directors are of opinion that these needs must be met by permanent provision, not by short time loans or discounts.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014e\u2014\u2014 GRAIN CONGESTION.Minneapolis wires: that the Great Northern has issued orders: to accept no more grain shipments: until the congestion is relieved.= > - Es pa UIT.Boston, Dec.-pJames J.Storrow has #:signed as æ tor of the Unlied Fruit Company in\u2018 e- with his: policy to resign from dll\u2018the* banks and companies with which he has been .connected as.a director pending the outcome of mayoPalty campaign.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 BRITISE CATTLE MARKETS.Lendon, Dec.16.\u2014To-day's supply of beasts, as usual on the Thursday following the great day, imcluded some fat beasts, .principally Bcotch, Norfolk and shorthorns,a few of which were left over on Monday.and some fresh consignments.Trade,taken as a whole,ruled slow at less money.Fat cows and bulls, however, maintained late rates.Top prices paid 2d to bs 4d; 90 stone Norfolk, 4s 8d to 48 10d; 100 stone shorthorns, 4s 44 to 4s .6d; 90 stone fat cows, 3s 8d to 3s 104; 100.stone fat bulls, 2s 10d to 3s 6d.Increase of 240 In sheep market.Compared with the corresponding day of last year, trade for both sheep and lambs :Fuled fairly steady.late currencies governing all transactions.Leading pens made per 8 !Ibs.as follows: \u2014734 to 8 stone Down tegs, bs 4d to 68 6d; 9 stone do., 58 24 to 0s 4d; 10 stone do., 58 to 58 2d.Calf trade not worth noting.uo- tations per 8 lbs.sinking the offal: Beasts, 25 10d to 58 44; sheep, 3s 6d to 68 64.lambs, 4s 8d to 6s.Total supply ~\u2014Beasts, 256014 sheep and lambs, 740: calves, 10; mil¢ch cows, 5.London, Dec.16.\u2014Fair supplies, and fair trade for best beef, but mutton very quiet.English beef, 3s 8d to 4s; Scotch sides, 3s 4d to 3s 8d; shorts, 4s 8d to 5s; Deptford and Liverpool killed, 3s 4d to 3s 104; refrigerated hindquarters, best, 4s to 4m 2d; seconds, 8s 64 to 3s 84; forequarters, 28 4d to 2s 6d; inferior beef, 2s 4d to 3s.Mutton\u2014Scotch wedders.- 3s 84 to 3s 104; tegs, 3s 8d to 4s; ewes, 2s nglish wedders, 3s 4d to 3s 8d: ewes, 28 6d to 28 8d; Dutch sheep, 2s 10d to 8s 2d; do., lambs, 3s to 3s 6d; veal, | 48 to 58; extreme.58 4d to 5s 8d; English | pork,.4s.24 to 5s; Dutch do., 45 2d t 6d per 8 1bs.4 fe to 4s BAXXING TACTICS.New.York, Dec.28\u2014London banking firms have during the past two months sent aver $35,000,000 for investment in Canada, with a view of avoiding the British income taxe \u2014 Pakd-up Capital, 89;000,000.Lawrence Boulevard, and Tour.of The Royal Trust Co.107 St.James: Street, \u2018Montreal 01 CAMTALI + Capital Fully Paid -.$1,000,000 Reserve Fund.- 900,000 BOARD OF DIRECTORS.Royal, @.C.M2.6,, President.Vice-President.gir H.Montagu Allan, C.R.Hosmer.Angus, : i W.Macdonald , C.A.Bauméarten.,__.|Hon, R.Mackay.ard Clouston,! A.Macnider.Bir Bd -> | Meredith.Sir PT.G, Shatghnessy, K.C.V.0.fir Wm.C.Van Horne, K.C.MG.\u2019 i \u201c= Æ' Robertioh.Manager.The election of a Montreal representa- |.pledge of the second lot of bonds.They |- per 8 1bs.\u201490 stone polled Aberdeens, 5s | Reserve Fund end Undivided Profits, ESTABLISHED 1864.THE MERCHANTS\u2019 BANK OF CANADA, A General Banking Business transacted.| LETTERS OF CREDIT - City Offloes\u2014208 Bt.James Strest, 1255 $t.Catherine Street East (corner © Fullum), 320.8t.Catherine Street West (corner University), 1330 st.ER REPORT FOR TEN MONTHS The Twin City Rapid Transit Company has just issued a report for the ten months of the fiscal vear ended October 31 last, showing a gross of $5,773,382, compared with $5.319,967 in 1908, an Increare of about 8.5 percent.Expenses increased: 2.7 percent.This increase has been steady, as shown by figures for the last four years.\u2018Ten months\u2019 net is $3,063,640, against ($2,682,050., Gross expenses and net for 10 months compare as followa: 3909.1908.Gross.$5,773,382 $5,318,967 Expenses.2,709,742 2.687.918 Net.ee §:063.640 2,682,059 The increas: in earnings was maia- tained throughout the financiall lde- pression and expenses were not curtailed.Ratio of operating expenses tg gross for 10 months of 1909 was 46 percent, a devrease of 3.5 percent from 1908, due chiefly to increase In earnings.uross for 1908 totaled $6,399,509, and amount available for dividends was $$1,874,001.After deducting 7 percent dividends om +he proletred,.khs company earned 8.27 percent :anÿ20,10u,- 000 common stock.For ten mionths of the current year surphi® after preferred dividends was $1,874,879, equal to 8.3 percent on the cômmon.Gross for November was $673,394, an increase of $51,700.December's figures ill show a proportionate increase, nd earnings for 1909 will stantial increase over 1909 a record year.Dividends of 7 percent have always been.paid on the $3,000,000 cumulative preferred.Payments on the common were {inaugurated in 1899 with 1 percent.\u201d Sthce 1903 5 percent has been paid.If'the long awalted decision of the Supreme Court on the six-for-a quarter faré widch Minneapolis tried to enfore: is in favor of :he company, an increase in the common dividend would not be out of the question, The case has been pending since 1307.No plans for extensions and better- ments will be considered.About $I,- 000,000 has been expendsd for cen- struction work this vear, principally in St.Paul.Twin City has no bonds outstanding, funded debt consisting of underlying liens on the properties of its constl- tuent compan.es.Total amount of this indebtedness is $19,523,000.show a sub- 1908, making New York Curb Prices New York, Dec.28.\u2014Quotations on the curb market to-day appear to show good strength and a fair demand for the more favored stocks.Following were the prices: Nipissing, 10 3-4 to 11; Bailey, offered, 11; Buffalo, 2 1-2 to 3-1-2; Butte, 28 to 1-2; British, 7 3-4 to 8; Boston, 22 to 1-8; Gas, 3-4 to 13-16; Central, 25 to 26; Marconi, 1 3-8 to 3-4; Ély, 8 to 9; Subway, 4 1-2 to 8-4; Davis, 4 1-2 to 3-4; Dominion, 3 to 5; Ely Central, 1 3-4 to 7-8; Ely, Cons, 80 to 82; Foster, 30 to 40; Creek, 4 to 8; National, 6 1-8 to 1-2; Daisy, 9 to 10; Gold Cons, 8 1-8 to 1-4; Meehan, 10 to 20; Giroux, 11 1-8 to 3-8; Greene, 11 1-2 to 3-4; Kerr, 8 11-16 to 3-4; Edward, 5-8 to 3-4; Rose, 4 15-16 to 5; McKinley, 80 to 85; Miami, 25 3-4 to 7-8; Men, 1 1-8 to 1-4; Nevada, 26 3-4 to 27; Ohio, 5 1-2 to 5-8; l'aw- hide, 23 to 24; Ray Cent, 3 7-8 to 15-16; Ray Cons, 26 7-8 to 27 1-4; Queeh, 20 \u2018 10/25} Leaf, 13 to 14; Standard on 3 ro cu er Le 1 -4;+ United ; 8 ; on, rls EERE 0.8 1h Take pen Sales of Unlisted Following are the sales of unlisted see curiities furnished to the \u2018Witness\u2019 by Mr.W.P.O'Brien: Cement pref.250 at 87, 1 at 58, 2 at Lake pref., 21% at 61.Cement, 8514 at 26, 14 at 25%.\u2018Silver leaf, 400 at 13%, La Rose, 60 at 490.Chambers, 50 at 40.TORONTO CATTLE.Toronto, Dec.28.\u2014Cattle trade is firm, 20 loads in to-day.including 344 cattle, 276 .sheep and lambs, 150 hogs and 29 calves.: Export cattle choice.$5.25 to $5.75; export cattle medium, $5.00 to $5.25; export bulls, $4.00 to $4.50; export bulls, ight, $2.50 to $4.10; export cows, $4.00 to $4.50; butchers\u2019 cattle, choice, $5.00 to $5.25.Butchers cattle medium, $4.25 to $4.75; butchers cattle commmon,$3.50 to $4.00; butchers cows, $3.50 to $4.00; butchers bulls, $3.00 to $3.50; stockers, cholce, $4.00 to $4.40; stockers, medium, $3.75 to $4.00: stockers, common, $2.50 to $3.26; stockers, bulls, $2.50 to $3.00; heavy feeders, $4.50 to $5.00; short- $4.50 to $5.00; milch cows, 65; mileh cows,common, each, $30 to $40; springers, each, $40 to $55; export ewes, $4.14 to $4.65, steady; bucks, $3,00 to $8.25.steady: lambs, 53%c to 7c, steady; calves, 8c to \u2018TY%c, steady.Hogs, selects, $8; fats a quarfer less off cars.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 LIVERPOOL CLOSINGS.Liverpool, Dec.28.\u2014Closing: Wheat, spot firm; No.2 red western winter.8s 23% d;.futures quiet; Dec.88 13%d: March: 7s 11%d, May 78 9%d.Corn, spot new | American mixed, via Galveston, quiet; 58 83%d; old âo., quiet, Br 9}4d; futures, guet: Jan.mixed, 5s 5%d; Jan.plate, 5s Hams, short cut dull, 61s 64.Bacon, clear bellies, 14 to 16 lbs., dull, 71s.Lard, prime western weak, 65s 6d.American refined weak.Linseed oil, quiet, 32sand underweight -) 84,602,157 issued to Travelle avail in all parts of the world, able Louise WE OFFER iGity of Montreal Registered Stock At Par and Interest pr -< Ye ord I X LR Co NT M 7 - \u2018Sank of 3Miuteeal BW ce ee .+ * 2,4 LL à _ £ ; - 209-ST.JAMES STREET, XL NT A i - és  a CLT Soo ; Méntroak.__ / / = germes IR PARA Bed oral 40: ro dm-Ae prover pi rer, déni 59 Li Steeve ect .oy 873%.New Quebec, 480 at 33, 50 at 32% |.500 at 33.Black Lake bonds\u20141000 at 79 flat.Black Lake, 55 at 20%.Black PLENTY OF CAPITAL FOR QUEBEC DEAL Work on Enlarging the New Company Will be Rushed \u2014Directors Meeting.A despatch to the \u2018Witness\u2019 from ly organized street sailway.electric.water and power merger have been offered large financial assistance from English and French capitalists, and that these offers are likely to form part of the business under discussion at the meeting to be held in the Ancient Capital to-morrow.The despatch further states that it is the intention of those behind this proposition to spend frem $500,000 to $1,- 000,000 annually for several years, so as to enlarge and develop the scope of the different properties forming the merger.The work of arranging all the preliminary details in the expansion and extensions of the railways and corporate interests in the new organization is about completed and aggressive development will be commenced without further delay.The new concern gives evidence of being one of the most important factors in the financial and industrial life of this province.GRAIN MARKETS QUIET WITH LITTLE CHANGE Toronto.Dec.28.\u2014All markets except Chicago showed very little change today from the condition of last Friday.December wheat at Chicago, however, was very strong from the very opening, and touched $1.19 hefore noon.At Winnipeg prices remained steady and about the same as last week.Ontario and Manitoba grains local market are firm and unchanged in all de- artments, with trade exceedingly dull.n all parts of the province.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Egg Market Firmer.New laid eggs are now selling as high ag 40c per dozen: selected at 80c, and No.1 candled at 27¢ per dozen.Quebec gives the Interesting Informa- ; tion that the promoters of the recent- 124 FISH PRICES REMAIN EASY TRADE 600; The tendency has later rise in the price of neur stuffs.Fish, however, ing exception to the ru J.Byrne.of Leonard Bro: cussing to-day the gener.throughout the country.T.tion on this account hue fish; meats and poultry 1.so high.Supplies, avs Mr.Byrn.sufficient.only being in: the storm on the Atlar: the fall.The outlook for the con.bright.Lent ix early.uv prove 4 big factor.Pr.higher.but not much Following are quotat.u- real, according tu Læunari ! Fresh haddock.cases foc per lb, 41-2e; less than « fish, cases 300 to 250 Ib.less than case.11-2.= cases 300 Ibs., 5e.Frozen grass pike, bo dressed, cases 140 lbs.«|.or doree, round pan raz.to 160 lbs, 71-2¢; pick.; fancy dressed, cases 146 * 12 + 4 smad! whitefish, \u2018Tullbee-.ol to 160 lbs.61-2c; whi: .140 to 160 lbs, per lb, 9c.i salmon, about ten lbs.eau to 175 lbs, 81-2¢: halibu- lhe.each, cases 250 lbs.61-.salmon.10 lbs.each.head.dressed, case 250 Ib=, Te; No hoxes 16 1bs.cach.10¢: macker stock.per lh.luc, large «ea weigh 50 to 80 Ibs.per 100.in H 300 fish per 100 fish, $I T0: new, per barrcl.$2.20.Smoked\u2014New haddiecs, in 15 à Ih.boxes, per 1h.Te; Kkippered ring, in half boxes.per half box smoked herring.new, in smail ».- per box, 12c: Yarmouth bloater.- box, per box.$1; St.John hlout-: in box, per box, $1.Standard bulk oysters, per \u201c, gallon, $1.30: relects, per galio \u2026 extraordinary scene occurred in vourt house corridors yesterday - rnnon when Timothy Riordan, the .zed murderer of Mrs.Lascelles at I ot St.Charles, and his daughter, -ared before Judge Bazin.Whe- - ny not the incident was pathetic « +11 take a student of human nature \u2026 uecide.Riordan pleaded not guilty, and was until Tuesday, Nov.rs L.E.Curran and A.Papineau came u She had Been exonerated from com- :-o,rv in the crime by the coroner; but ee \u201cjathorities wished to detain her as material witness.Accordingly u \u201cmplaint was formally made by tha sctives, and she was ordered to be :«-n to the jail.She did not at first understand the der, apparently, and as the court was .smissed she arose, and looking en- sirngly at Judge Bazin, said: \u2018I can \u201cvw, Your Hanor?« with the const sald Mr.La- o> rr, clerk of e cou But, Your Honor, my baby.\u201d began LO ORY, + excitemeéht: « home, Your Honor, just two -anth8 old- Surely you're.not go< -z to keep me away from my baby?1 vi: away, from it last night, - Your Honor ~ome on\u2019 said the constable.The woman became more excited.Ca Mister, 1 beg of you, mister\u2014 \u201canr Honor\u2014surely, surely you're not ng to Jet therh take me away frora : baby Tudge Y Bazin had disappeared through \u201ce door.The constable took the wo- an by the arm and tried to lead her tne cells.Then such a shrieking -11 moaning, and -< and general uproar took place as > not been seen-or heard in the cells + many a day.\u201d The jailer, Mr.Jobin, vo is not easily moved, to hoid : hands over his ears to keep out the | » man\u2019s hysterical cries.She gripped me bars of the door of her cell and red to force her face between the a an \u201c\u2018erstices, She d the.jaller by \u201cervthing she could think of to allow - to depart.~,.great was the clamor, that people.rom The offices ypstalrs came down to .what was the matter.\"This con- \u201cued until the woman was taken -+v in the patro The facts are, so the detectives say.-aL the baby has been negle The .matron says she never saw & \u201cother and baby in such a state of \u2018\u2019», when they came to her on Christ- :- night.The Cell in which they had to be fumigated.The baby is being looked after by the x mr.an's husband, who, it is said.- à been living with her: for some ie \u2014\u2014__® SALOON EARLY CLOSENG: Subject Down for.Considera tion at Next Thursday's Council Meeting.: \u2014 ni -:* order -of: the day ' for meeting of.the City Coun- Le © -d reading of Alderman \u2018arter\u2019s 1.-.aw.proposing \u2018the early nsing of people, fod do being avancs to back up any project for the village: but HoT Dios bis as the Connon! Hotel, and recently mollis by Aire, 0.8160 ! thf black oc occu i-, ed b 3 son, W.err store, and the \u2018Gleaner\u2019 \u201conce.|- Seine thé \u2018upper part ss & residence, and the fine atone residenps on Pr street, now occupied by:-Mr: G.A.Kyle.| Th BRE Sunday, at 1 p.m.e Rev Ce: Lean, of St \u2018Andrew\u2019 8, officiated.bent us | ay uebec and Mar bal Provinces.que \u2018an \u2018action recover: 000-ingur- 4 ance, money od \u201cby husband of plaihtift, payable to her upon his that.geceased standing his death, A having failed and ed to pay several monthly\u2019 à which bad become dué and révious .to hig\u2019 death.The Court found the plea to pe 8 e ac the Es «£ \u201cAnt i pure comedy, as is tg be | who had nat been away from home for | is taken to.New York, amd given a' There are several sudden | will be told: when | ties, and has held.15 Jn great respect by his fel\u2019 ~w-towns- Tetting i : The funeral took place From the hotise | \u2018t of his son-in-law, Mr.A \u201c1 its dE fence rested mainly upon the point] \u2019 de est ean 1] (nga na SS alent.~ A veteran of the Crimean war, wh: has lived in Montreal for over thirt: years, passed away yesterday just be - fore noon in the person of Mr.Thoma: Gough, of 4853 Western avenue.West- mount.Born at Loughrea, Ireland, on years of age.Wher a youth Mr.Gough joined the 77th Regiment in Jreldnd,.to go to the Crimea.and the last ta leave.On his return from the Crimea Mr.Gough was ttansferred to Quebec, where he was appointed sergeant musketry instructor in the 1st Battalion of the 17th Regiment.He wore threo me- dals\u2014one for Iong service and good conduct: ons for the Crimea and an- THE- LATE MR.GOUGH, other, with two bars, for Inkerman and Sebastopol.He also saw the charge of the immortal six hundred at Balaclava.Mr.Gough also saw service during the Fenian raids, for which he received a medal from the Dominion Government.Retiring from military life, he moved from Quebec to Montreal, and secured employment in the Grand Trunk Railway offices, where he remained for twenty-one years.He has been living retired at Westmount for over fifteen years.Mr.Gough was a consistent and highly respected member of West- mount Methodist Church, and held the office of secretary-treasurer of the of the first memhers He is survived by his widow, three sons and one daughter\u2014Messrs.George H.Robert N.and John Gough, and Margaret, wife of the Rev.F.Tripp, pastor of the Me- 4 thodist Church at Vankleek Hill, Ontario.The funeral will take row afternoon at 2.30 o'clock from his late residence.Mr.Gough was a former old resident of Point St Charles, and fcr many years was a tinrekeepér at the Grand Trunk Railway workshops.: BANE BURGLARIES.Deteactiva The Pinkerton National .Agency has issued a circular confirming the statement recently made by the | American Bankers\u2019 Agsoclation, their relationship with Pinkérton's National Detective Agency had céased on Dec.18, 1909.The Pinkertons state: that the treak came about tar .igh their refusing to accept à contract odered by the Bunkers\u2019 Association, unless it were an the the santé terms and conditions as before.They go on to state some \u2018Interesting facts Te say \u2018bank burglaries.since 1894 They say It was this agency, that because of | the extensive losses to banks throughout the United Statés at the time by professional bank safe burglars, sneak thieves, forgers and check swin'llers, in 1894, suggested to and urged .ov.Jf cers of the American Banpke.s Asapcia- tion to undertake for \u2018iis members the suppression, of crime -on 8, And which, subséquentiy, led to the adoption by the Association of its present .tective Feature.t that time, the American Bankers\u2019 oy consisted of 1,700 members, and.our ness: from the Association approximated , he Agendy's entire bust: CR thè Amer- AsdbélatioY Ts how ap- 11,000, bu: the.Business we receiving 181.4 tile ingre percent of bar enftre:busines 2: ss years ¥ Pinkeston s Nation.ertniiel cr aéjathetér the Yn Bankers! Association.The regord.Gor a os Ht not | but: the t perr vus throat ie se ali cases ay members, thefégenes | Les 18 ; b te and Serie bur, tar tr members of the Rr t £ aid.re said to Be Teyjmg | 123 4 Drive Spaniards.Out\u2019 Emtively.: Srbral : \u201cA renewal of the-war- Spsnish .the.Rif es ce id RE or \u201cobject tards from Morocco, ai indicated v b the actions af sta ii Fr .i) \u201cHS re 7 unding ter- November 25, 1828, tie was eight-one.and this was one of the first regiments.dr Li Bing irom 1400 to 1700 1ba.quarterly board, of which he was one ace to-mor- that.| amet! necklace she wore was.hat.i Miss Ethel Mor.it from t Mise Te : 8 Dr.be ane eituren, Mr and Si.A despatch to the United Press from à against the | bis § Sunderd.jones ARK po Spanish forces | PAR garal on polite.7} avy ropes of artas \u2018and | = arfiving, \u2018fn Morocco | without.thet feeling.Don ment due ee PE AM no difference\u2014you'lI neod it.CASCARETS 10c = bof for & week's Ry HORSES FOR SALE By Auction Rg\u201d WEDNESDAY, December 291, \u2018at 10.30 a.m.We have recetyed nstructions \"fram J.J, SON, Curator for the Estate of SON URISOY, Limited, \"in Liquidation, Bt Heavy Working i.46 \u2018Head dfk -ahd reaîy for one \u2018of es 2 have offered this \u2018winter.Suitable for Lumbering, Farming and Heavy Haul ing.Num of good big teams, suitable for city use.Now on view at our Stables, and will positively be sold without reserve ' or T.W.FOSTER, Auctioneer, >< 4805 St.Paul St.Main 3265.oo mie PERSONALS Mr.J H.Dunn, of London, formerly of Montreal, is at the Place.Viger.Dr.Arthur Lemieux and Mrs.Le- mieux arrive home.to-day trom a trip abroad Lady Reid and Miss Reid have left for New York, and will\u2019 spend a few days farther south.Mr.and Mrs.Fisk are guests of Mrs.Fisk's brother, Mr; George Beardmore, at \u2018Chudleigh,\u2019 Taronta.Mr.and Mrs.Arthur Macfarlane \u2018spent Christmas with Mr.and Mrs.Alex.Blue, at \u2018Parkwood,\u2019 Sherbrooke.Mr.and Mrs.R.H.Bryson, Miss Bryson, and Robert Bryson, jr., were guests of Mr.and Mrs.Robert Wright, Brockvilie, over Christmas.The Rev.Henry Britten and Mrs.Britten are in town from Port Hope | to spend the holiday season with Mr.und Mrs.Warwiék' Chipman.Mrs.John McCulloeh, ly Miss Olive Gurd, will.receive at the ho: le \u2018of her mother, Mrs.Charles Gurd, 65- McGill College avenue,\u201d on Thursday afternoon of this week.Dr.H.T.Bovey.and Mrs.Bovey.Tel.are leaving London for a motor trip.spend the rest of the winter on the Riviera.By permission.of- theKing; the marriage :of the Hon.Mary Sydney, Cole- brook; daughter -of Lord -and -Lady Colebrook, to Mr:-Rdward Huwesey Packe, on December 11th, took place in the Chapel \u2018sub-dean, 29 Dr., \"1 ¥Mci Prince am éqve à blue enamel | © te;-the Duchess of Suth- |.- umbrella banat erland; \u2018a pewter dish; the Duchess of\" with diamond Hangs Li wit n ang Le to Lady t, diamond ht \u2018vir.ogee Ba to the bride was a- Fobra of dian \u2018wings for the hair. a Limi *, PSUX wh pr = au y F.jk: es + à He ty +.a 3 OUR CIRCULATION Since the inception of the \u2018Daily \u2018Witness,\u2019 in 1860, it has been the sole aim and object of its publishers to give to its readers daily-all the news, home and foreign, ih bright, comprehensive style, and to have its editorial page interesting, educative and elevating \u2018in character.NEWSPAPER, NOT AN ADVERTISING SHEET.How far we have succeeded can be best\u2019 judged by our friends \u201cand subscribers, who read the \"Wtiness\" daily.The quality of the Witness\u2019 circulation pi and acknowledged.It has, however, been feund advisable to Mfcynase the quantity without depreciating the quality 5100 on in Canada.not fictitious.It is simply the ber of the family.read i it If our of \u2018opinion and judge accordingly._ In the meantime, we have been publishing about 46 years.We gauge ; However, we are never too old to learn.mm an évery day perusal of the \u201cWitness.\u2019 à er se me me a In other w your girl says the, fashions.> me.TET 4 Cad 8, we wish to To do this we inaugurated, some time ago, , the greatest circulation cam- Prizes to the extent of $10,000 were * By the magnitude of our offers.we attracted the best class of people to compete, and by their efforts the circulation of the \u2018Witness\u2019 publications has been very largely increased.is campaign has been carried to a highly successful conclusion, and thousands of regular readers have been added to our already.strong circula- TO BE CARRIED ON first of a well-devised If our read- But i mn oper to judge its progress fairly you ust vad it.Read it every ming: your boy says.there is y iss Baker, of \u2018New and M was the groomsman.The | Yor A hite pr Jn gold.One | bride wore her travelling costume, and of the many beautiful gifts received by er the service in the churoh, \u2018Mr.fthe bride was à diamond pendant from the groom, who gave to the best man.and ushers pearl and topaz s~arf pins, ng chosen as being -the brides birth- \u2018stone.The.bride gave the maid of honor \u2018pearl brooch, and to the bridesmaids.pearl and amethyet brooches.Among guests for the wedding are Mr.and | Mrs.Van der Veer, of New to & the ee Me.-R.Mr.Van der Veor and \u2018hie | for x wedding trip- before going to New: York.: The bride's travel ing costu to match, trimmed \u2018with black - aidd- ; and &-5ig mat.tés'and to employees of.ster & Co., and of the p thé whole: Arte dt Sir estats is given for cha to be eel by.thé 5 $0 an 8: Qu { & ; = Ÿ Sy \u201cth been.m uable Servi ne.a regul Crain opis 1th anded Squ © gequel to a difference of opinioir of Jone standing between Sara Cartlo- ÿ | eight.© of 338 8t.James street, and Plots > Miley, who gave her address as Otta- but who lives in a house.om st wrence - ; was \u2018heard Tr.Judge Bazin this morning.Sara was arrested.for damaging property and the compldinant gave the particulars of the.\u201cjuss._\u2014She said that as she was drévinges = Thong tho street the olller day a rherse nto \u2018the sje « be fur coat.sh and e prisoner à not attempt to de- By this ata tanient and she said that the .women in the house whère F lora as she passéd, Enquete was fixed for Thursday.* + SUSPECTED THEFT, Hg ous Omtarie, tie ee pee 5 A Sead 5 AS Vow >t [Solid æ> Sarixiety.+ Jieve, the committee states, in saumming cided to forward a > retary - Warded to the Imperial authoritics, pe- of Counau t \u201cse Be appointed Governor- Genera: of f Cun- Weekly Calendar.\u201d oe TO-NIGHT a ew 2e eee bi le PC à RAF «| .MONTREAL CHORAL SOCIETY .\u201cMESSIAH\u201d At 8.15 p.m, SOPRANO, Higgem de Moss, (New York.) TENOR.Monour, (Glasgow.) Organist .au avosecs Planigt .cee Conductor .0.00.000e000 in St.Jamss Methodist Church.TY PA.\u2019 CON RATIO, = Beith (Boston.) BASS, Kenneth (New York.) », MARTIN.Bd TICKETS.$1.00 and 75c, to be Had at \u2018Mesnrs, J.W.Shaw & Co, 370 st Catherine street West.General admission, 50c.3 Twice: Dally.3,30 Aftsrnoons; $ pim.Nights Fine two YRIC Hour Refined Entertainments, with M Muste, Songs an LX MOVING PICTURES.PARKER.the Renowned Banjoist: MILDRED PARKER, Instrumentalist.FORTUNE BROS.Acrobats.10¢, 15C, 260.NDE E RSON, in Songs.Children at Matinses, 80, euoupt Art Association.\u2014\u2014 The William J.and Agnes Learmont Collection ON VIEW, 9 a.m.to dusk Admission 250.Members Free NOTICE The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETIN of the CARILLON & GRENVIL = RAILWAY COMPANY will be held on Monday, 10th January, 1910, at the Office of the OTTAWA RIVER NAVIGATION CO'Y, 165 Common streét, Montreal, at 10 a.m., for the election of Di- rectors for the ensuing year and for the transaction of business.Bv order of the Directors A.E.BLAGG, Secretary.Dec.27th, 1909.INSANE FROM OVERWORK Pitiful Fate of Prominent Rail way Man in Philadelphia.\u201c Philadelphia, Dec.28\u2014Bernard H.Bail, second vice-president and general freight traffic manager of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company.became violenily insane to- day in his office in the Reading terminal, the company\u2019s big office building.and after a struggle was removed to a hospital for the insane.Policemen, hastlly summoned, found Mr.Bail on the floor of Lis offize, handcuffed and held down by private policemen and railway officials.He was taken from the building struggling and fighting to | release nimself trom those who held him, and was conveycd secretly to the hospital.No information has been given out at the Reading offices, and the facts in the.case were learned from the pclice.It is believed that overwork was the cause of Mr.Bail's breakdown.Mr.Ball was recently appointed second vice-president.\u2018 Was: considered one of the greatest: experts |, of freight traffic in the countr Hel! \u2018has been with the Reading Co ny; a long time and rose \u2018rom the Tanks.- TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS: The health of \u201cCount Leo Tolstoy, tite Russian novelist, is again en The count has \"had a fever since last night.were summoned yesterday from Moscow and Tula to attend him.The total public benefactions in the United States during the past twelve months was $141,250,000, an amount \u2018Just $40,000,000 greater than any pre- Yioüs year in the history of the country.according to statistics compiled by a New York newspaper.The -rincipal \u201ctenefactors in 1909 have been the late John S.Kennedy, of New York, $26,- 550,000: Mr.John D.Rockefeller, $12,- 852,000, and Mr.Andrew Carnegie, $6.- 056,611.Of the total amount given in 1909, over a third was given specifical- Jy for educational work.: totai benefactions in the United tates reported in the public press the last sev enteen years, add up to no less -than $1,000,150,000.Montreal, The special committee of Copenhagen University which investigated Dr.Frederick A.Cook's polar records, is now considering whether or not it will publish a second report, giving further detalls of its work.A member of the committee said yesterday that some of the details of Cook\u2019s narrative of his expedition were fabricated, and his papers showed that he had used calculations furnished by Captain Loose.The second report, he added, would present evidence to that effect.vs \u2019 The report of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce charges the civic administration with an extravagant use of public funds, favoritism to contractors on friendly terms with the administ tion, and other shortcomings.\u2018We be- up the reports of its expert, \u2018that the root of the evil in municipal work is not primarily graft or unnecessary appropriations, but manifestly \u2018in the maintenance of a standard of inefficiency that insures the least amount of work for the greatest number of Individuals.\" The committee recommends as a remedy for existing conditions a new city charter along the.lines of the Des Moines plan, of a business administration under a board of directors.The three-masted schooner \u2018Nantas- ket\u2019 was hurled \u2018ashore: at Scituate, Mass., on Sunday, Volunteer life-sav- ers, using the breeches buoy, rescued her crew of ten men.Rt is probable that the vessel, which.lies on sand high on the beach, will be a total loss.She was bound for Boston from -Nerth Carolina with lumber.The \u2018Davis Palmer, à five.Jrasted Boston schooner, was lost off the én trance to Boston harbor during Bun.day's storm, with all on board, twelve men.The \u2018Davis Palmer.\u2019 in command of Captain Leroy K.McKeown, of Malden, left Newport News on December 21st, with 4,000 tons of coal for Boston.A stopping place nine miles trom Elk- Lake, Ont, \u2018kept by Mr.\u201d Hayes, was burned yesterday.Mrs.es and her two children were burnelt to death.Particulars of the fire here not yet been received, but it is r- stood that the mother and children | were burned in their beds.The Calgary Canadian Club has.de- 1 to.the of State, tobe inturn for- » Htloning that the Duke a.\u201cro OPPOSE MA.LLOYD Garonne.- Mr.ar, os posa be pipcent, es y - -itood thatthey in no way wer af cours ; \u2018the à Physicians | Tne Pilly aies, OFFICES.CORNER CRAIG AND ST.PETER STREETS.) 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apd will have t6 Day the expeliges.of 5 nn: provision.of Mayor HJustice Cannon to be unfit to continue .\"« § to hold their Turks Islaaa d and Zanzi ! hh Bi v - is to pass the Work on.diate action.exept, in serrrine oyt.the | find hospital toom\u2019 tok the wvelfiow of | > - 200FRE to |\u201d be no alteriigtive.but tha) the, otty\u2019 |, to ne | $00.9 the largest towns that positions, Yexterday afternoon, the Fire Committee resolved Immediately to rejnstate the two men, without the loss of a cent of salary.As in the case of Finnigan, the trackman, who was continually losing his job when drunk, only te bo reappointed when he was sobér, it was a quick change of \u2018off agin\u2019 and \u2018an agin\u2019 The initial act of suspension was approved in words but condemned in fact by the action of the commi*- tee.It expressed chairman, but kicked him downstairs, all the same.The Fire Committee includes Aldermen Nault and Gagdbois,, i who were themselves * reported by Mr.4 Justice Cannon, and \u201ca fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind.\" They were present yesterday when the decision to reinstate Firemen Dubois and Marin was adopted, and, without insisting upon the decency or otherwise of their silent acquiescence, it is permissible to suggest that, as trey have not retired or suspended themaslves, they are hardly the men to be depended upon to support the suspension of others.Aldermen Robillard; Mercier and Larivie were not to be looked to to support Alderman Yates, who must have had a pretty accurate | idea when he acted so firmly last week, that he would stand alone.That action, therefore, was the more courageous on his part, an act to.set over against some wrong-beaded blunders.It was of small purpose, however, to take such a stand unless he meant to | stick to it.In making no protest he | loses some of the credit which has been accorded to him.The aldermen Have brought the city into sufficient | disrepute by their maladministration : of its affairs, and now they add insult to injury by jeering at the report of their own condemnation and that of ; others in the city's employ.| | \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 Buffalo also has its civic troubles | and proposes to try to remedy them | by the institution of a \u2018business ad- \u2018 ministration under a board of direc- \u2018tors.\u2019 The dra\u2014as of civic wrong have familiar features wherever the : scenes may be lald.Tkus, in Buffalo there \u2018has been extravagant use of public funds; favoritism to contrae- tors on friendly terms with the administration; supplies have been paid for by, the\u201d city at the highest rate above, market value; the pay-rolls carry the names of many men, who rendez: the Qty very slight :retergs: \u201cfer * their considerable salaries; and so forth and so on.fairs Committee, which has been in- | vestigating matters in Buffalo, has come to the conclusion that \u2018the root \u2018of the evil in municipal \u201cwork is not \\ primarily \u2018graft or unnecessary ap- | tpropxjations, but.manifestly In the « e'6f à standard of inefi- ! : Vaal, Australia, the Yukon and other.+ \u2018individaald® While graft and un- Aocesséfy appropriations are\u201d in evidence in many cities, there is no doubt that \u2018by far the greatest amount of , waste goes on in tkem, including Montreal, after the fashion of Biiffalo.Anyone trying to do business at our! \u2018City Hall, for instance, must have: noticed.that there seem to be two, \u2018 when.there are not three of mere, clerks Tor every one-man\u2019s job, \u2018and thakugheir chief employment, sbpar- ently, as.well as their chief anxlety, re \u2018 MISREPRESENTATION 8.The nonsense that has besh so freely talked by Dr.Yates and others about the fell effects that would follow the shortening of the hours of sale of liquor\u2014the great increase there would be.in drinking and drunkenness, \u2018is \u2018identical with what has been dil}- gently promulgated hy the liquor men in a}l parts of this continent.How far the people | have believed it is man'feated by the \u2018phenomenal Increase of \u2018d¥ tefritory in if parts of beth countries.Menaces\u2018 from a \u2018bimilgr source, identical with those put foith \u2018bythe leading, and other; hotel keep ers of Montreal, of the mischief that \u201cwould be done to trade and prosperity by ghorter drinking hours, have \u2018been\u2019 #0 constantly repeated in the trade\u2019 papers that we should riot wonder If the assembled bonifaces, having soaked themselves in that liters- ture, really believed what they said.i Buch talk has In almost every city rand respectable.:citisens, .like Tr.Tatot.f t4,8ght net IR ; Tanti he heat su \u201cgreatest -.4 benefits 40 , the \u201cpeoplp and .to the wealth of the city.A notable instance Whide We.aay s0ms months BEN.Was that\u2019 6F \u2018Kansis \u201cOity, Kansas, whéré many lédéïnè bankers and others who had\u2019 opposed \u201cthe- \u2018dry\u2019 orditance, gave willing testiifériÿ to \u2018the great benefit toute: oity's, business.sud: prosgerity wiileh' \u2018had eviéently and.° updeniably resulted.- .Much moré\u201d recently - wa beautifu Jol bo mes ; the, \u2018Gate its love far its 5 \u2018causing all: coring maistepièric !clenty \u2018that irisures\"ttre Nèst'a\u2018udunt ° pousitilé to saÿ En lof wopk for the \u2018kreatest number of | d, | neighboring ebector: is that \u201cthe advertisements.{*ana newspaper articles issued in tha \u2018interests of the liquor trade and \u2018stating in general terms that crime \u2018and poverty hawe increased in Owen \u2018Sound since local option was adopt- \u2018ed, and that druggists, respectable \u2018eitizens and others sold liquor illicit- \u2018ly; and that others perjured them- \u2018selves, were a tissue of gross mis- \u2018 representations\u2019 and were in no way \u2018 whatever borne out by the facts\u2019 That Is to say, they are lies.A MISCHIEF MAKER.Where ia it going to stop ?Butter bas\" risen 40 percent during the past eighteash noMNE cheese 30 percent, ex&s 140.pertent.wbeat and coffee and four about 20 percent, lard and pork 55-percent, bagon and poultry and house rent and what not, all have soared and continue to soar.The working people, because of the high cost of-living, Bave saved little, and they are dissatisfied, as anyone may discover who speaks with them.They i say, in effect, that If times are as good as the newspapers say they are, they ought to share in them, and that, a8 a fact, they are not doing so\u2014that they are Workingsas hafd as ever just | £ for a bare Hvizig.- In consequence, there is a spirit of unrest, and we have the phenomenon of many threatened strikes \u2018to interrupt the march of prosperity.The railways in the United Statés have about concluded, it is sald, that they must ra\u2018se the wages of their 1,700,000\u2019 employees, at an added cost to them of about $100,000,000 yearly.This will necessitate increased freight rates, which in turn will be added to the cost of commodities to be paid for bythe consumer.As we have shown, it is the increasing abundance of gald which has done the most to dislocate prices; that, and the generally higher standard of living whi:h has increased\u201d \u201c éonsumption in farm products and other commodities.There never was at any previous time such a flood of new gold as during the present generation, and we are threat- r ened with \u2018no-end\u2019 more of it.Gold .mines are being worked in the Trans- parts of Canada, Alaska, the United States, and elsewhere.In the United States alone, there is now more gold produced in a year than the whole world produced two or.\u2018thres - hundred ; years ago.Duffpé the pest ten years \u2018the world's gold output has equalled, :we are told, the entire production of | the three and a half centuries from the | ; discovery of América to the rush to The Municipal A£- California, in \u201849.This flood of gold, making money worth.less, while it bas stimulated commerce and industry by odities to rise in , price the word, gver, has at the same time advanced prices to the consumer, : whether.we bay: ear houses, has, \u2018locomotives, apd\u2019 gE is trg- \u2018will happen na fhithe 'teadiustment \u2018sommoalty prices 18 fore the, Risley La of gold vides i solved.- com pan : PLAY IN THE AIR.-:In New York -the Playgrounds\u2019 As- \u2018sociation had a difficult problem to solve.On account of the enormous { value df land Ti.the congested tenement district, where playgrounds were most needed fox the children, it.was fmpossible to obtain open ground \u2018apace.- Room riot being availatle laterally, it was decided, New York fask- ion, to secure space vertically, and a sky-scraper has been projected by the philapthropists.As they cannot get playgrounds on the earth, they will &o up into the air.A lot has been bought in the heart of the crowded East Side, similar to other lofty structures, wili provide a playground on each iloor, all open at the sides, so as to make conditions as near as possible to an open-air field.-,« The children will be graded according to age om separate floors, and provided with suitable means for play, sand heaps for lttle ones, 2 gymnasium for boys, another for girls, in which they can play as well as exercise, a.baghetball court, and a swimming pool for the older ones.A new festure in this evolution of the playgrounds movement is setting apart of the ground floor as a, public reception.room end meeting plage.for the people: .of the neighbor- need generally.The 1déa Is to pro.\u2018vide\u2019 h \u2018Dliice \u2018where adult residents ea apsemble for.soctar stercuureé in- utead of ri 2 gons.- K-14 to be mad \u2018an.attractive, and Gothfortable, place; | where ren ean.\u2018éssemble to.talk \u2018apd 1 exchange Apinions, bring.their wives | 1 [with them If.50 disppecd, while their | VA children enjoy the playgrounde-sbove.\u201c6 Such à niace of Pleasant intercourse 1s | a necessity morally, sociaily snd-phy- sheeld promote.hutual vnderstanding between races which ive; even where thé \u2018crowding\u2019 5 denpest, \u201cho triépaty | Intercourse, and: should\u2019 bring about scquaintasice find rienasy betwee BO on Without linting a hand to\u2019 sève the remaiping open 3paces, fast \"dis< | appéaring,\u201d gnd which makes sacred X's of those little squares that we have guarded everywhere with the necessary warning not to go on the grass.ONTARIO CIVIC ELECTIONS Nominations \u201cHeld in Nearly Every Municipality Yesterday.Toronto.Dec.\u201c27.1 \u2014Nominations for civic offices were held to-day in nearly all the municipalities of Ontario.The fiections by acclamation are as fol- ows: Colborne, Dec.27.\u2014Reeve, R.Snet- singer.Kemptville, Ont, Dec.27.\u2014Resve Sanderson and Deputy Reeve Kidd, of Oxford, are re- lected by acclamation.Renfrew, Ont., Dec.27.\u2014Result of nomination meeting to-night is as follows:\u2014Arthur Graveue, Mayor, by acclamation; H.N.Moss, rèève, by acclamation.Rockland, Ont., Dec.27.\u2014Result of nominations are as foilows:\u2014Dr.Des- rosier.Mayor.acclamation; As S.Marion, reeve, acclamation.L'Orignal, Ont., 27.~Result of nominations So éollows Siete Ww.1, alec à lanes n.Pembroke, Ont, Ye 27.~Nomina - Pembroke\u2014 Reeve, W.P.Fey DO Depu; ty reeve, William , acclama- on Hespeler, Ont.Dec.27.\u2014Mayor G.D.Forbes.acclamation: reeve, Dr.R.Lockhart, acclamet! Aurora, Dec.27.Mayor 3 M.Baldwin, acclamation; reeve, W L nomics, acclamation.Saut Ste.Marie, Ont, Dec.27.\u2014 Mayor T.E.Simpson.acclamation.Brantford, Ont., 27\u2014Mayor W.Wood, oman | Sutton\u2014Reeve A.E.Pugsley, acela- mation.| Paisley\u2014Reeve, I.Shoemaker (accla- { mation).| Owen Sound\u2014Mayor, F.W.Harrison (acclamation).Belleville-\u2014Mayor, L.w.\u2018Marsh (acclamation).Oakville\u2014Mayor, G.Hilimer (acclamation).Bowmanville\u2014Mayor, J-.J.Mason (acclamation); Reeve, L.Tole (acclamation).Drayton\u2014Reeve, G.M.Fox (acclamation).Mitchell\u2014Mayor, F.A.Campbell (acclamation).Harriston\u2014Mayor, A.Shotton (acclamation).Welland\u2014Mayor, W.H.Crowther (acclamation).New Hamburg\u2014J.Katzennie (acclamation).GREAT LIBEL SUIT Outcome of the Skn Francisco Grafters\u2019 Trial.New York, Dec.27\u2014The formal com | pie'nt in the damage suit of Francis J Heney, the prosecutor in the San Francisco graft cases, against Wm.Ih Crocker, the California millionnaire, for $250,000, on an allegation of libel, was filed hère to-day.Mr.Heney bases \u2018his action on an open letter bearing Mr.Crocker's name, which appeared in a New York evening newspaper on December 3, in which Mr.Crocker defended his action in first supporting Heney prosecutions and later with- | drawing his support James \u2018 M.Beck, \u2018éounsel for Mr.Heney, said to- \u2018At soorr as Mr: Crockers: Totter was published, Mr.Heney telegrenhed me to bring this suit.\u2018 -Mr.-Heney, who nearly gave his life to the cause of exposing corruption in San Francisco, desires to settle once and for all time the question as to whether he conducted the prosecutions against the San Francisco grafters in an honorable and legitimate way.' In the heat of the great contest in San Francisco, many charges were made by ifrespon- sible men against Mr.Heney, -but when Mr.Crocker assumed respensi- bility for these charges and gave them wide circulation in a responsible n of public opinion, Mr.Héney felt that his opportunity had come to have a jury of his fellow-countrymen determine the justice or injustice of the \u2018accusations against him.In San Francisco the graft cutions have so divided its people hostile camps that it would meem into me a matter of exceeding difficulty to securé a Jury which would consider the questions involved with absolyte impartialt y.New York, however, thère can Dé no selfish interests in the issues which grew out of the San Francisco graft prosecutions, and here, therefore, a jury can be selected which and, a concrete bulldingy{-can impartially and fearlessly \u2018Judge detweén Mr.Crocker s grave accusations and Mr.Heney\u2019s account of his \u2018stewardship as a public official.\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 CHINA vs.JAPAN, Violation of an Agreement Alleged by Fermer.» Pekin.Dec Dec.#1 Chinese Covers.ment to-day formally complained + 0 Japan .against violation of te Men ukian tel convention Government en ad months age.wo re \u2014\u2014 ~ CHRISTMAS AT Ye FARM.\"(Prom a -Correspopdent.) aaThere is magie rates \u2018epont dd kin orto pe \u2018bad wid edsr£od But Tarps smile ait wore .a-mpw- and re in nt.a.over | : en who, , Share ae ue: EE le bre ot | Tr joy seetia at fired sight to be & poor : | srtinelal substitute.for the beapty of allows té, process: of \u201ccongestion \u201cto ons a new.ee Het ès wère made for dares on oh poe ohncert and gamys, which t sverydtis mord or less in fits of ter unt!l 10.30.waoen a vote of & for ull the Lind people who bad pro the treat, the National them was sung and the boys retired with Tiny, Tim's prayer, \u2018God bless us every one.\u2019 The following is an additional list of subscribers to Mr.F.W.Alexander, Shawbridge, $5; Mis 3G.Shaw, $1; Mr.J.Shaw, $1; Mrs.Girard, box of candy; Mr.J.A.Philips, pocket handkerchiefs, all Shawbri Mrs.Morkell, Sherbrooke, box of co and fruit; an anonymous donor, à box of text cards; the Misses pou» Montreal, box of shirte and new 8.THE TONG WAR.Serious Outbreak in New York's Chinatown.New York, Dec.28.\u20148Scores of detectives and uniformed patrolmen were sent into Chinatown to-day to check, if possible, the outbreak of the Tong war, in which one Chinaman has been killed within a few hours and another mortally wounded.Police Captain vin states that the new assassins, kn.wn In the Tongs as \u2018un men,\u2019 were sent here from Boston following the recent legal execution there of five Hip Sing Long members, who were vunvicted of killing several On Leong ToOng men, and that their miselon was revenge.Low Jung, the 75-year-old Celestial, whose withered body was riddled with bullets late last night, was the treasurer of the Four Brothers Society, a western Tong, which has taken a part in the war, making it three-sided.The Four Brothers are supposed to have brought a lange sum of money to this city for the purpose of employing \u2018gun men\u2019 to kill enemies.Low Jung was the custodian and reputed dispenser of the fund, and for that reason hed been especially marked for slaugh- er.Lu Yo Fong, the younger Chinese, who was shot three times, was Low Jung's aseistant and companion.He said that four men suddenly broke into the room and commenc¢ed Aring.The police found Low Jung's iron money safe and removed if to a police station.Fearing that the latest assassination will lead to open hostilities, all China- \u201cmen are being searched tor weapons, and every strange Chinese is being closely watched.JAPANESE EXHIBITION Exhibits on Their Way to London the Best Ever Sent Out of Japan.Tokio, Dec.4\u2014The work of preparation for the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition is now approaching the final point, and Mr.Beppu, the chief commissioner, left for London a few days ago to complete arrangements there.The list of exhibits from this country is very large Indeed, and in every department it 1s now fully understood t the exhibition will be the best ever sent out from Japan to any country; in fact, the exhibition will be representative of Japan in every respect, and almost every phase of lise in thiscoun- try.The actual transportation of the exhibits 11 commence on December Sth: private exhbibitors number 1,180, and their exhibits number about 18,- 060 all told.COREA.Its Second Real ] Road Opened ~ From Kunsas to-Chonji: + Tokio, Saturdey.Dec.4\u2014The first real road in Corea, except that connecting Seoul and Chemulpo, was opened a few duys ago, and connects the towns of Kunéan and Chonji.This policy of building highways is being pursued all over the country.and an expenditure of several millions of ven will within & very short time itself felt in the Increased t Tame rame and enji are jubllant, \u201cit business.The orts from unsan and being stated Sa already the effect of of commerce and the op- the country peopie Interchange of | BE Tar being fe MR.A.W.FERGUSON.Detroit Man Appointed Gen eral Manager of the Dun Commercial a Aguney.Detroit, Mich., \u201cDec.28.\u2014A- a.: n digtrict manager in Detroit since 189$.© je fifty-two years , end was born ton, t.e was and came to De- or graduating His n here was as a reporter.His new position is one of sponsibility and carries with it a high ary.: DASHED TO DEATH Two Men at Cobalt Fall to the first pos Bottom of a 300 Feet: - Shaft.Cobalt, Ont.Dec.28-\u2014A most dia | occu esterday the .of Qobelt Hyd He Pow- or mpeny, on the Montreal River, two gaged on the Norks fell ne © the shat.a tency Sieh Thomas Bantersen t, was one of the men killed, while the other man's name has not yot Doan = lete details of | an se = ve yet AUSTRALIA'S NAVY.* |-Parmanent Men to be Trained \u201can Voisels of Present SET Pec.28\u2014Mr.Cook, the Boys\u2019 Farm: - goods into the towne are | The private sjdent Zelay his former members of departure la vice-consul an introduct ston.ington.~ Parry Sou ly all their prey to thes take part in Sitnation Chantber of He said that was, while s power.al crisis of Crete and which gave France and ententes.minister, It aimed at bloodthirsty the country, Arrest fous young sales ed to partak sender of t FIRE Liverpool, ered in tbe liner \u2018Celtic\u2019 York.The blage was the bales of M ed at t a youth At deyligh in the little sheriff with guard forcements.ed, an elder daughter are ing of the occurred at will recover.Bonleged the Then I r And blessed ford, 12, 13, 4 pronount EX PRESIDENT ZELAY 3 Of Hi Way Wit With His + y From Salina Cruz.Mexico City.Santa Lucrecia, City passed Zelaya is accompanied 1.of his political able nervousress, wiicli x - larly noticeatble while pu-i:l the streets ot Salina Cruz : uncomplimentarv about the United State- «© taking the train the jartv sul at Salina Cruz.The political discussed, Mr.received any instructions fr.» The party City to-morrow morning.Sheep and Deer Killed ir ia Numbers Near Pa: .are roaming in large Nu + 4 a few miles of the tow: ©, Sound, in the township of C.Son farmers of that section have large number of deer are also Ing taken by the farmers to orc club to go out and have to exterminate these pests.ed that fully a hundred peopl: thoroughly organized affair.TRIUMPH OF ENTENTES Than For Years Past.Paris, December 28.\u2014Replying sene, who urged a more active +.+ policy, M.Pinchon, Ministerof tv -._ Affairs, declared that the situa\u2018.- Europe, thanks to the policy «- tentes, was better than for years ; stern realities, not ideas.to preserve peace by all mean: .M.Pinchon reviewed the Intern.Dogger Bank affair, the Persian Turkish revolutions, the situat: referred especially to the solutio- .the Balkan difficulty as a \u2018Our policy in these affairs\u2019 \u2018was consistent and leg.gained the applause of Europe\u2019 He declared that the Republic.v- safeguarding the general interes cause of humanity.POISON BY MAIL Paris Mystery Revealed by 2, - Voman in a Depart: \u201cmental Store.Paris, Dec.store, has uncovered a poison-by-m mystery.According to the police, ¢h colates containing arsenic were ne, through the mails to a person who ia sive guest, a tenor at the Opera, = several and died a few hours later Tr stated, was discovered by pure accider The police refuse to divulge the nam: -\u2014fpner But the \u201cCeltics\u2019 Passengers Ware all in Ignorance of it the vessel was four da yesterday.The fire was still burniLe but its presence wa sknown to n° of the 400 Tammenee of reg to reach promptly the origin of ! begun.- tinued to-day.The fire started an.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ANOTHER SOUTHERN SHOOTING 18, Tenn, Dec.28.\u2014Æntrench home « of a friend.desperat® in the belief tha mother, James F.Roach, scarcely mor bay on the outekirts of Memphis f some hours early to-day.t Roach still held the {:- ed, it 1s believed, and a lone depu awaited the arrival of rein mother, Mrs.Sallie E.Mille: terday following an money matters.Mre.Miller et prove: .Iv ment to seek for Christ .à Nature seemed so fair Frat first the woods and fields my v- en 4 I was sure to fin Allegiance paid; but Winter came a: #hoo he crown and purple from my wood.eaows, Like degert sands, with scorn My Thebes.cut deep with many a sol\u2019: {But epiiap hed her own sepulchred stair blunt Winter for his cou: .bleak.~'The Search.'\u2014James Russell Low: | \u2018Feronto, Dec.28.\u2014Victoria, 38, 3- y monton, 4b.13; Kamloops t Socal snow flurties apd cold 7 seat Yoignsad y win Be \"he Atlantic storm has sed tf eastward of Newfoundland.A dis 0 anse which has developed since ++ oo1d ce owed i Bru Peu re ps ET f ; ai Ni ae Imei » H Menxie: ; car on which ti - nis procecd: ne through i.associat, « secretary the party oO How st night.Thee | resaarhs at Managua J.for.to the Ame: Lua.situatio Livingston \u2026- 15 due .WOLVES, a B Sound, nd, Ont.Dec NN sheep killed by Ww e animals.Steps at Wo It j the hunt, which is te \u2014 in Europe Bette Deputies to M.de 1 France was forced : Her .- trengthening her de the past five years, other important mu: rise to anxiety.bot, - the whole of Europ.H \u2018triumi:.said > substituting honoratlr action, and the result never lost sight «oi of a Young Sales 28.\u2014The arrest here of woman in a departm: e of them, but an inofic- he poisoned candy.|: IN MID OCEAN.Dec.28.\u2014Fire was disc hold of the White =>\u2018 last Wednesday.wh 3 out from N°\" liner arrived here sale arrival the wo © cargo in an 1 u The work was co cotton in hold No.ê.t be had Killed Lo held a small posse - dwelling house, well arn a number of citipens Besides Roach, it is sta: ly man, bis wife ari in the house.The shoo: her suburben store J \u2014 Him there; solemn aisle and pa: bered whom I went to sf below St.John, 20, 4,2 ing _Wednesd-\" ' Decidediy : ah ichigan.The wet East, 3\" Barome!c.ESTE 2é te se ee 0 M4 ter th- res - jan in 1: er asi.on and er H.of a th: \u2014 {3 TO LEND.\\ ze rest (ve always money to lend on First on city real estate.Low rates Ex- Loans for large amounts.«opt down in all cases.ough quickly when required.« T's Gradock Simpson Gompany 205 St.James Street, ond FLOOR, MERCHANTS BANK BLDG, MONTREAL.\u201c BRODIE\u2019'S i.'{-Raising Buckwheat Flour For PANCAKES ERODIE & HARVIE, 14 BLEURY STRERT 4.E POTTER & CO'Y.Painters and Decorators.ESTIMATES GIVEN.ac BENCIT 8T,, (formerly 3L 2alla) Telephone M 980 WESTMOUNT .WON BY 11 TO 9 Tiree Rivers Defeated Opening Game of the St.Lawrence Hockey Association.in DELAYS AND PENALTIES WERE NUMEROUS\u2014SLASHING TACTICS INDULGED IN.Tre first game under the control of -iy formed St.Lawrence Amateur \u2018Key Association, took place last \u201cht at the Arena, when Westmount de- sted Three Rivers by 11 goals to 9, score representing pretty fairly « ut the difference in the two teams.The whistle blew at a few minutes to « v\u2019clock and the teams lined up as fol- MS \u2014 Westmount.PINCE.++ ++ o.Goal.Michaud Gichie.s + .Point.8.Malone wesett oo.Cover point.C.Baptist \\'mistrong.Rover.Dostaler mth, ,.Centre.F.Malone tonds., .Right wing.Kiernan®* cornell.+, Left wing.Olivier \u2018Replaced by J.Malone.Referee\u2014Mr.Frank Kavanagh, Vie- TIS, Judge of Play\u2014Mr, George Slater, \u2018lorias.\u2018imers\u2014Messrs.C.Smeaton and Bax- _ :-nalty Timer\u2014Art.Ross.\u201cne game afforded plenty of excite- \u2018\u2019ent and the' usual gets of the enthu- -iasts were -delfVered.If time counted or aught it could not be denied that the vectators had value for their money, -or_ the final gong was not sounded uni 11.20 o'clock.There were fourteen penalties with Vestmount, the worst offender.The -uburbapftes had to take compulsory rest for 27 minutes, while Three Rivers nanaged to be penalised twenty min- tes, Delays were frequent, and this vas the chief feature in a game which v.18 otherwise fairly good.At times ît ~oked as if a.fiwht might develop, ~aen slashing tactics were indulged in, \u201cit notwithstanding the length of the -ame nothing materialised in the way : pugilism.In the first half Kiernan, the right ving of the Three Rivers team, had to \u201ctire owing to an injured wrist, and he vas replaced by J.Malone.There were ree members of the Malone family \u2018aying for Three Rivers.Woods, of \\-stmount, also had to retire, and 1t \u201cts intimated that George Bell would \u2018+e his place.To this Three Rivers \u2018iected, and, consequently, the teams - the second quarter, consisted of only XY men each.Owing to penalties, \u201crc Was a time when there was only x men all told on the ice.Three Rivers seemed to have a bit the ~ SR Ito: efsrise Te ts \u2018or.priviléges that the eom- pany may think necessary or convenient for the purposes of its business, and in particular, any 8, factories, mills, plants, buildings and works of any and every kind and description, patent rights or other inventions, machinery and stock In trade, that it may consider convenient to have and hold in connection with tts business; to build, work, develop, oper ate and make use of same or any part thereof, and to that end to construct, and maintain all and any buildings, works, and other adjuncts and appurtenances that may be convenient for such purposes, and to construct, own and aperate vessels, cars and other vehicles \u2018propelled by steam, eléctricity or otherwise, - for > MONTREAL CHAMPIONS FOR FIFTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR CARRY OFF HIGHEST HON-, ORS IN WATER POLO LEAGUE.To the Montreal Swimming Club again belongs the distinction of winning the city water pole championship, and retaining the place of honor which it has held since the formation of the Montreal polo league.But perhaps what is the most remarkable feature of its proud record 1s the fact that the team has never lost a match.In the season just concluded the team scored 111 goals to 14 against it.The following is the result of the season's games: Senior Series.Won.Lost.M.8.C.se oe se se an 8 0 McGill.e 58 se ee se ee 2 Nautique.+c os oe eo .4 4 XY.Ace v0 00 oo 20 20 0e 2 6 CPR.00 au 00 00 0000 00 0 8 Intermediate, Series.> _ Won Lost.M.8.C.ew À.+.ee ee .7 1 Meal.\u2014e .ae oe La 4 4 YMON TI 2 6 C.P.R.se 06 55 20 04 00 0 8.A meeting of the Montreal League o'clock in the Y.M.C.A., when the date will be fixed to play off the intermediate tie.The question of the formation of a Junior league will also be discussed.- This winter there may be a game layed for the championship of Canada.LL Ontario League opens its schedule in January, and on the conclusion of the the championship play off M.8.C., the holders of the championship cup.The Ontario League, is composed of Toronto_ Unive, Ys Club, Galt and the College teams.\"NEW YEAR'S DAY MATCH.Junior Victoria will practice from 10 to 11 tonight and the team to Ray against Huntingdon will be picked.Huntingdon will;play New Year's night.\u2014\u2014 MONTREAL JUNIORS PRACTICE.Montreal Juniors w [ll practice at the Arena this evening from: 7 to 8 o'clock.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 LYRIC HALL, \" There are some splendid features at the Lyric Hall show this week.Many Montrealers at yesterday's performance welcomed back My.J.H.Parker and Mabel Parker, In thelr novel and artistic musical act.- They play on ban- jos, marfdolins, bandolas, and other {n- 3 and classical struments in both\u201d \u20ac selections.A very tling act is done by.the Fortune Bros, who balance and swing on the Rondan rings ; in à most.dar} and balancing in the\u201d air, altogether a very lively fifteen minutes act.= The pictures this week are specially fine, among the best being a won- fu picture called \u2018The, derfui bi ph Sinan Folie, Sis will be held on Thursday evening at 8.30 | season it is proposed that the winner of | Toronto Swimming Guelph Agricultural | - manner, as- well as\u2019 tumbling uid it mous be to mean ] 940 IC Wi .to n'| any material changes in the reset ie ERA 7 ic \u2018Now that Xmas le over, we turn our attention to serving you for the New Year's Remembrances Our store is a veritable storehouse, replete with all you can need for New Year's gitt giving.Even the biggest Xmas business on récord has not left us unprepared for the coming - demand.Our reserve stook of French Carriage Clocks is now being displayed,\u2018 Prices range from $5.00 JOHNSTON BROS.the purposes of the company.To acquire.by.purchase, .lease or otherwise, and to take over to whole or any Y part .of the undertaking, business, property, assets or labilities of any person, \u2018partnership or company carrying on any business in.whole or in part which this company is authorized to carry on, or possessed of property suitable and proper for the purposes of this eompany.| To enter into partnership or into an \u2018arrangement for sharing of profits, union -of Interests, co-operation, joint adven- .ture, reciprocal concession or otherwise, with anv person or company carrying on or engaged in or about to carry on or'engage In any business or transaction which the company is authorized to on or engage, in or any business or transaction capable of being conducted so as directly or indirectly to benefit the company; and to lend money to, guarantee the contracts of, or otherwise assist any person or company, and to take or otherwise acquire shares and securities of any such company, and to -8ell, hold, reissue, with or without guarantee or otherwise deal with the same.To purchase, take in exchange, or in \u2018payment or otherwise acquire, hold and own, and whilst holding same, to exercise all the rights ang privileges of holders and owners thereot, and to sell with or without guarantee, and deal in the shares, bonds, debentures and other securities of any other company or companies having purposes or objects altogether orn part similar to those of this company, or carrying on any business, capable of being conducted so as directly \u2018or indirectly to benefit this company \u2018and.to establish, promote or otherwise assist any such other company or companies.; .To issue paid up shares, -bonds, de- \u2018 bentures or ofher securities for the payment, either in whole or in part, of any roperty, real or personal, m -or fmmoveable, services, rights, lease, business, franchise, undertaking, power, privilege, license or concession which: \u2018| this company may law y to isgue fully paid shxres, bo .debentures or other securities of the eompany: \u2018In payment or part payment of or.in éx- change for sharea, bonds, debentures or \u2018other securities of any other company doing a business similar or incidental to the business of this company.- To lense, exchange, p PRESIDENCY OF BRAZIL.! De Fonceca Promisge a Ringe Elie Rio de Janeiro, Det.27.\u2014At a-politi- cal banquet given in Rio Janeiro last night, Marshal Hermes de Fonséca, a candidate for the presidency of the republic, set forth his programme.He promised that he would conduct the administration in accordance with existing laws and the constitution.He fy Sho Blin pnd solos s that justice would de administered imparti it care would be exercised in the shdicé of magistrates.He dwelt at length upon the necessity of primary education, and the need of professional,\u201d \u201cagricultyrdl © and iridustrial sc s.He said the natural wealth of.- country should: he developed by every proper means; and he expressed himself in favor of colonisation.The \u2018tarif£ he declared, shoulda afford moderate protection to local ind .; ty the speaker Many and he promised, that the-£é Dé ve A - + _[;bentures, bonds or other .sscurities of ,-and said that | À .To enter 1 any ar ments w any authoritiés\u201d mantotpal, foonl \u2018or à wige, that may seem conducive to th \u2018compan rs objects, o to.obtain from any rights, privileges En hd 10\u201d 0 ou cke ri 96 promot any où dertaking of th sideration as the company may think proper, \u2018and in particular for sharés; de- other company having objects alto- ee in ert atmilnr to those of the company.+: vs?To lend money to customers and pany and to guarantee.the.pe ane of contracts by any such pe us also tlie performances.of an ligation Or of any other gompany in which: the company 18 interests and-to accept -as: sequrity for-such.loans.and ered \u2018by such person ôr-cempany, in- fared by mach and debentures pf such er com .: ks Sra Bike, tnt, dore, le nt, e e and issu r \u2018notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading, debentures.and other negotiable- or transferable instruments.> \u201cTo distribute in specie or otherwise a8.may be resolved any anseis of the A among ita members and particularly the shares, bonds, ures or ther securities of any, other co, she over hole or any part of the : the w .assets or labilities of this company, romoty chase or otherwise, dnd to utilize, own, | others having dealings with the comi- | arûntee any security that may be of- | which may seem directly or indirectly calculated to benefit the company.To do all or any of the above things as principals, agents, contractors, trus- tess or otherwise and either alone or in Conjünetion with others and all such Father things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above ob- Jects and also to carry on any business or businesses whether manufacturtug or otherwise, germane to the purposes and objects above set forth and which may seem to the company capable of being conveniently carried on in connection with the business or objects of the company.That the shareholders of the com y shall incur no personal responsibility in excess of the amount of the price paid or agreed to be paid to the company for its shares.That the company may accept the following property as payment in full of 700,000 shares of its stock, to wit: the mining rights of two lots of land being numbers 15 and 16 in the 6th range of the township of Amherst, in the county of Labelle, containing said lots about 100 acres each, and also the mining rights on that certain lot or land forming part of lot No.20, in the 7th range in the township of Amherst, containing five arpents in wiäth by five arpents in depth, with the water power thereon, together with the plant, machinery, tools, implements, ore, buildings and other moveable effects and chattels found thereon, under the name of \u2018Graphite, Limited\u2019, with a total capital stock of one million dollars ($1,000,000.00), divided into one million (1,000,000) shares of one dollar (81.00) each.The principal place of business of the corporation will be in the city of Montreal.Dated from the office of the secretary of the province, this twenty-second day of November, 1909.JEREMIE L.DECARIE, 4822 Provincial Secretary.CHAUVIN, BAKER & WALKER, Attorneys for the Company.NOTICE.The Harbor Commission= ers of Montreal will receive applications until Noon, MONDAY, 3rd Jan, Wharf Berths, Spaces and Privileges during the season of navigation of 1910, after which date all applications received will be dealt with together.DAVID SEATH, Secretary-Treasurer.Montreal, 23rd December, 1909.TENDERS FOR INDIAN SUPPLIES SEALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned and endorsed \u2018Tenders for Indian Supplies,\u2019 will be received at this Department up to noon on Friday, 14th January, 1910, for the delivery of Indian supplies during the fiscal year ending the 31st March, 1911, duty pald, at various points in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.Forms of tender containing -full particulars may be had by appliving to the undersigned.The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.J.D.McLEAN, Secretary, Department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa.N.B.\u2014Newspapers inserting this advertisement without authority of the De partment will not be pai LADIES 0 T TA W COLLEGE -.Re-opens Tuosday, Janv.4th lIRNIRD TERME BEGINS FEB.3rd.-\u20181Ymdte for Calendar and particulars.ipa W.D.ARMSTRONG, M.A., D.D, WARE President.| ne x body O t to Enow, and a oy Large Mambes do Know, that WALTER PAUL'S GROCERY EST ape the Beat Flaces in the City to qoex OuFiatmns ce Every-day nope There you will find everything you may require in the line of groceries, provisions, fruits, vegetables, pure candies, colates, Bon Bons.in immense variety, BISOUITE OF KINDS, made in Canada; from the, United States, land.England, Ireland, France.short, everything the heart of man or woman should desire.Holly and Mistie- toe, and cther Table Decorations, in Que son.; oC The Public are invited to call and see themselven for 461 ST.CATHERINE WEST, 80 UNIVERSITY.Scot- WHITAKERS ALMANAG for 1910 Cloth Edition, 85 cents.Paper \u201c 43 cents.ZADKIELS ALMANAC, 15¢ cents MORTON, PHILLIPS & CO.Stationers, Blank Book Makers, Printers, 115-117 Notre Dame Street W., Moatreal.\u2018Special New Year's Eve Supper at the Windsor Hotel.SECURE YOUR TABLES EARLY MARRIAGE LICENSES _ MONEY TO LEND.CUSHING & BARRON Notaries and Commissioners Liverpool & London & Globe : insurance Bullding 112 Sit.James Street.JACKSON & CO.\u2019 CARPENTERS, BUILDERS and CONTRACTORS.\u201c Valnations mare, Joubine promis \u2018S208 to \u2018t3v HieERNIA ROAD, : _MAVE YOU GOT A COLD Get « box ef HANTE'S GRIPPS WAS: Bn + a errs \u2018NOW ABOUT THAT COUON s bottle of EARTH'S COUGR MID in fancy boxes, and by the pound.Cho- po PUTT POR EN rE gas ET PRES 09 A ve at RPE RS Fr ~~ \u2018draw.January Sale Price.SHIPS 49\u2014Fine English Cotton Skirt, muslin flounce, trimmed with row of eyelet insertion, cluster of tucks and frill of eyelet embroidery to match.Very smart skirt.January Sale Price $3.75 38 \u2014Fine English Cotton Skirt, deep £ lawn flounce, cluster of fine pin tucks, and {nll of blind and eyelet \u201c-embroidered insertion to match.January\u2019 Sale, Price .$3.95 37\u2014 Fhe Esglish Cotton Skirt, deep flounce, trimmed with - imitation baby Irish lace and insertion, in filigree design, rows of fine tucks, and ,edged with beading, a ribbon draw, finished with lace, « January Sale Price .$4.25 64\u2014Good English Cotton Skirt, beauti- \u2018bow of ribbon.fully embroidered lawn flounce, embroidered beading, large anuary Sale Price .J .« $5.50 62\u2014Fine English Cotton Skirt, deep flounce, splendidly trimmed, tucks and open work and shadow embroidery, wide embroidery beading and silk ribbon draw, finished with large bow.January | Sale Price .$650 72\u2014Fine Cotton Skirt, extra deep muslin Hounce, with four rows of fine \"embroidered insertion, frill of em- \u2018 broidery to match in beautiful design.January Sale Price $8.50 66\u2014Fine English Cotton Skirt, flounce of heavy open wark embroidery, - cluster of pin tucks, wide embraid- ered insertion, open work of beautiful design, a magnificent garment.Our January Whitewear Sale (7 One of the Most Important Selling Events of This Business Year.\u2014 Corset Covers : vary Sale Price .105\u2014Corset cover of fine cotton, tight - fitting, neck and arms edged with lace.January Sale Price.25 189\u2014 Corset cover of fine English cotton, circular yoke of embroidery, threaded with silk ribbon, 2 clusters of 5 tucks in back, neck, andl varms edged lace, January Salt Price \u201che es 20 192 Fine lawn cover, deep yoke of \"all over embroidery, in front, with row of beading and ribbon top and, bottom, back neatly tucked, neck and arms edged with lace.January Sale Price .75 193\u2014AIL over embroidery Cover, back and shoulders of fine lawn, val.lacé edging on neck, back neatly tucked, silk nbbon draw.January Sale Price.65 117\u2014Cover of fine nainsook, yoke elaborately trimmed with insertion in pointed effect, medalliodts of embroidery, and silk ribbon draw.Jañuary Sale Price .\u201c50 \u2018 t26\u2014Very fine- nainsook corset cover, : four panels of embroidery insertion down front, yoke of insertion and lace, finished with beading and trimmed with ribbon.Jan- 75 afema Led fo pair * 4 flounce of eyelet January Sale Price deep cluster of small tucks.January Sale Price.Special Value.January Sale Price.around neck and arms.front.\u2014 \u2014 a \u201cTo the Women in every town and village in the Province of Quebec, but particularly to the Women of Montreal, our January Whitewear Sale comes as one of the most, if not the very most 1m- portant selling event in the whole business year.It brings to your door the daintiest of most exquisite lingerie.It brings it as fresh, as white, as refined, and as dainty as machinery ever made for Canadian Womanhood.prices less, by a çonsiderable margin, than even our own best prices of previous years, and it brings a bigger selection\u2014bigger by thousands of garments than we ever had involved in a white sale before.is this good :reason for our more extensive purchases\u2014our New Building.And there is this reason besides for the still lower prices\u2014 we bought our Nainsooks and cottons in last June when the textile market was lower by fully 20 per cent.than at any time since.that reason we can offer It brings it, this year, at Drawers 209\u2014Good cotton drawers, embroidery, finished clusters of tucks.212\u2014Fine cotton drawers, fine frill of embroidery, finished with cluster of small tucks, and embroidery beading with ribbon.\u2018January Sale Price .75 242\u2014Dyawers of fine nainsook, full frilf of beautiful design - embroidery , insertion to match, finished with 401\u2014Fine nainsook Isabelle drawers, frill flounce of heavy eyelet embroidery.Special Value.January Sale Price .400\u2014Isabelle drawer of fine nainsook, frill flounce of fine embroidery.913\u2014Good English Cotton drawers, deep hemstitched lawn flounce, finished with eyelet embroidery.Chemises 650\u2014Good English Cotton, round neck, finished with hemstitched January Sale Price .49 651\u2014Good English Cotton Chemise, open in front, round neck, trimmed cambric embroidery, with panel embroidery and insertion down 0m SU EE \u2014\u2014 There For 567\u2014Fine nainsook gown, Empire style, yoke of panels of spot muslin and insertion, edged with beading and ribbon draws, and sleeves neatly trimmed to match.January Sale Price.$4.00 569\u2014Fine nainsook gown, slip over style, yoke of imitation Maltese lace and Val., insertion and medallions c£ embroidery, sleeves trimmed to match.Very pretty gown.January Sale Price.$4.75 529\u2014Very fine nainsook gown, slip over style, Dutch neck, finished with wide beading and ribbon draw, and edged with Val.lace, sleeves to match.Price.$175 561\u2014Fine nainsook gown, Empire style, yoke of daintily embroid- .65 ered lawn, with row of Val.insertion let in, sleeves and neck daintily trimmed and edged with val.lace, A very fine garment.Price.$3.50 552\u2014Fine nainsook gown, slip over © style, yoke of heavy eyelet insertion edged with French beading and .ribbon draw, sleeve tnmmed heavy eyelet embroidery to match, beautiful garment.Price.$3.25 565\u2014Fine nainsook gown, slip over style, yoke of heavy eyelet insertion threaded with wade silk nbbon through centre, shoulders and sleeves daintily trimmed insertion and lace to match.Very.elaborate gown.Price.deep .50 $1.25 50 frill .A5 .\u2026 .$4.25 _Corset Covers 194\u2014Corset Cover of lawñ, all over embroidery back | and front, arms edged Val.lace, neck threaded with ribbon.A very pretty cover.January Sale Price.89 126\u2014Corset Covers of nainsook yoke effect of Val.insertion in dainty design, motifs of embroidery, neck and arms edged lace, beading and ribbon 133\u2014Nainsook Corset Cover, yoke effect of embroid- .ery, lawn and 2 rows of insertion, neck and arms trimmed lace, back neatly tucked.January Sale Price.shape appliques and rows of insertion, beading and nbbon draw.January Sale Price.3%1.25 January Sale Price .8.00 omar January Sale Price .95 146\u2014Cover of fine nainsook, yoke effect in diamond Drawers .239-\u2014Very-fine nainsook drawers, urhbrella frill of vety dainty-embroidery, open up the sides, embroidered beading with ribbon draw, and cluster of fie hemstitched tucks.| A beautiful garment.Price.Lo Cee.42.75 ~ 238\u2014Fine nainsook drawers, very deep flounce of beautiful heavy embroidery, finished with French bead- .ing, silk ribbon draw.A really magnificent gar- .ment.January Sale Price.$2.75 225\u2014Very fine nainsook drawers, frill of cross:bar muslin and fine tucks, edged with very: fine Val.lace, embroidery bedding with ribbon draw._ = January Sale Price.2: 2.2.04 22 220\u2014Fine nainsook drawers, deep frill fldunce of æy embroidery, finished with beading ribbon draw, fad cluster of fine fucks.Jandary Sale Price.73\u2014English cotton skirt, lawn flounce, one cluster of Skirts 28\u2014Fine English cotton, flounce of cross-bar muslin, 3 rows of fine Val.insertion, frill of 21/-inch Val.lace to match, dust ruffle.January Sale Price.$3.25 7\u2014Goog English cotton, flounce of open work em-\u2019 broidered lawn, dust ruffle.\u2018 January Sale Price.81.75 75\u2014Good English cotton skirts, lawn flounce and clusters of fine ph tucks, finished with eyelet embroidered, dust frill.{January Sale Price.$250 tucks, and dainty embroidered finish.Extra ; en , Pe eo ov ae +.31:90 of.i .MA x ; \u2019 | Nn + : v.2.La RAC ; 12 cs ; = A a special value.January Sale Price.$1.00 Night Gowns 504\u2014Good English cotton, high neck, kimona effect, yoke tucked and hemstitched, sleeves to match.Price.Coo.$1.00 510\u2014Fine nainsook gown, square neck, finished with \u2018embroidery beading edged torchon lace, ribbon draw with bow, sleeves to match.Price.$1.25 512\u2014Fine nainsook gown, Dutch neck, trimmed with row of Val.insertion and edged cambric embroidery, finished with silk ribbon bows, and sleeves tc match.Price.I.1 V5) 502\u2014Good cotton gown, high neck, yoke has cluster of .©» 2e .oe .fine ticks, neck and sleeves finished with hem- | sutched muslin frill.A very serviceable gown Price.ce vo DD ay / Tt AA Gh an A Pip EY 4 AAA Tr oo | \u2014 7 JONNS DAY BANQU y.Met fer Annual Feasts L.+ Night Wherever Masons are.Masons lust night shared Creal testing that has been sh the St.John's Day mmemerial, It is said that | cisys than usual gathered \u2018val beard, while the cnc lange of greetings and u cts Wus In order through- » and district.The places { Were As follows: v Lodge, No.1, held their she Queen's Hotel.Over 200 of the lodge were present.from most of the other received with the hag- following three dele- «ré sent to visit other lodges: Hurry Wilson, W.Bro.James \u201cere 1 the { .Pro.W.M.Eaves, M.W.zn Winder Glassford presided Acuet, æddge, No.7, held their din- ae Edinburgh Cafe.Worship- ~ter J A.Veiteh was in the Tho W.M.-elect, Dr.Op- .was also present.Three e- ns were sent out, the frst\u2019 by Wor.Bro.Swinton, aad \u201clrarns, the second by W.P.| the third by W.Cooper and \u2019 ; No presentations took * x will be made at the relation of officers on the v in January.- ve's Lodge, No.10, dined a 1 Hotel, the chair being \u2018 \u201cershipful Master Jas.Row- \u2018cations were sent oot, lixmediate Master Brown, \u2018pful Brother Cowfield, H, Hopkins.Among , the Right Worshipful Brother \u201cuv minister of weights and 07 Ottawa: A.W.B.Win- Haïifux, and Bro.D.Blair.Lodge, No.12, held their the Edinburgh Cafe, on street.The cafe was -pécially for the eccasion.~.*tanley Bagg presided.De- - were sent out\u2019 to the sister : vetghout the city and depu- _ vers received in turn and \u2018 .«welanged.added to the pleasure of the \"Un6 pul Master John R.Marshall .uvver the banquet of the St.«* Lodge, No.14, at the Linton, - 4 brethren attended, amongst present being Past Master J.© and Right Worshipful Bre- \u2018seorge W.Sadler and J.W.Gl Deputations were received other lcdges during the course \u201cvening.\u2018real Kilwinning, No.20, Place a! Albert Lodge, No.25, dined ¢ + =econd floor of the Masonic +.Dorchester street, about sixty - present.Wor.Bro.McCombe » - the chair, and there were pre- \u2018istrict grand master of the St.district, E.Fraser, of Sher- ve.The usual deputations were +t and received.vil Victoria Lodge, No.57, dined « third floor of the Masonic ne Wor, Bro.Leslie Boyd being \u2018\u2019 chair.Among the guests were v°.n) Master J.Alec Cameron.Dur- : \"6 evening deputations were gent ¢ \u2018+ the various sister lodges of the « and received from them in turn.a -lcal programme was provided.int Royal Lodge, No.32, dined - .basement of the Masonic Tempo Wo Bo J.C.Mundle presiding.{mong the guests were Bro.E.A Tans, grand Z.of Quebec \u2018Chapter: 2 zht Wor.Bro.Chennell, of Sher- - ske: the Rev.Wor.Bro.Norwood, ot dyer Bro.Stanton, and Wor.Fo B.Tressider, and Right Wor.Fo.Rev.Dr.Symonds.Past masters present in profusion, and the inl deputations were sent out and : eived.Mount Moriah Lodge, No.38, held so banquet in the Majestic Hall, 15 street ,about 70 worshipful bre- ren attending.The immediate past rater, W, Bro.C.C.McMichael, oc- «1 the chair and amongst those nt were Right Worshipful Bre- .T.McLaurin, John McLean, © BR.Dewar, Very Worshipful Bro- wr D.J.Dickson and Worshipful -r.-hren R.W Geddes, J.J.York and \u201c H Holland.In the course of the \u201cvng delegations from all the other ies in the city were received.\u201cnea Consort, No.52, Auditorium, \u201ctvelet street.= Andrew's Lodge, No.t3, held their \u201c\u201d-r in Stanley Hall, Most Wor- © il Master J.W.Lippiatt in the :\u201d.About 60 of the members were nt at the dinner.The following Cites were sent to other lodges in , vtr:\u2014Very Worshipful Brothers \u2018+ nah and Erskine, Worshipful Bro- ++ Band and Robertson, and Bro.+n Taylor.I~, No.54, Whorton\u2019s Cafe.Roval Victoria Lodge, No.57, at the darsaie Temple.White's Hall, Well- neg Argyle.Noo 63, zon and Richmofid streets.\u2018Trrla, No.73, Lakeview House, Le nine Li:iern Star, No.74, Riendeau Ho- - WESTMOUNT, NO.76.it banquet of the Westmount \"is - 78, took.place in the Vic- .Westmount, about 50 wor- \u201cuv.prethren being present.The * - D'Ul Master, Bro.H.B.Rorke F0, and was supported by past Hazierz of the lodge.During the ev- on à Jewel was presented to im- Detai- Pyst Master W.R.Allan.Lots \u201d\u2026 {rom the other city lodges ° a - No, 82, Fairmount Y.M.Sn Paui\u2019s Lodge, E.R.No.374, held cor dinner La the Windsor Hall, Most ; hplil Brother W.B.A.Browning \u201clig at the banquet.Delegates \u201cTher lodge dinners were Bro.Dr.Hamilton, Bro.Dr.Morrison bro Bond Baptist.Over 209 Were present at the dinner.lrorger Lodge, E.R., No.440, dat he Merchants\u2019 Cafe.PLEO TION OF OFFICERS.\"Wing officers have been vcectiv in addition to those al- \u201clished: ST.ANDREW'S.No.6, Quebec.Wo Bre.Jas.P.Tweddell (re- SW.Bro.Wm.Langford (re- I'W.Bro.E.J.C.Chambers; ~~ R.War.Bro.A.E.Seifert Tit.secretary, V.Wor.Bro.charjain, Most Wor, ' D.Chambers; S.D., Bro.400; JD.Bro.k.W.More Than 20 Irgredients give to Hood's Sar- tacarilla its great curative power \u2014 L*er to cure many and varied com- L : + including diseases of the blood, 8.°rta of the stomach, troubles of Lo\" \\oiners and liver.et \u2018ar.of the ingredients are just what | \"> profession prescribe in the ailments\u2019 .\u201874.Ent the combination and pro- « \u201care peculiar to this mediciné and + rl! curative power peculiar to itaelf, _ Dérefnre, there can be no au Hood's, Get it today.ee 7 \u2014-\u2014\u2014 J 8 ETS 1 Porter: 1G.Bro.8.G.Claxton.A musical pro- | tyler, Hector McQueen.The banquet will be held at the : Chateau Frontenac this.evening.STANSBRIDGE.; No.19, Stanbridge.| WML, S.P.Knight; 8.W., J.G.K.{ Sime; J.W.James Dyke; \u2018reasurer, iC.E.Blian; secretary, 8S.H.Sorn- benre: chaplain, David Vaughan.The banquet was held last night.BROWNE.No.24, Farnham.W.M., A.J.Starks: S.W., G, Lester: J.W., Thomas Landers; treasurer, i William Sturgeon; sccretary Sam, W.\u2018Starke; chaplain, C.G.Ames; S.D.Clinton Carr; J.D., F.A.Carden: GI o! C., John D.offman: organist, : Richard Fairfield; stewards (3), A.L.i Bacheldey, Joseph Longtin, Chas t Hazes: J.G., S.Armstrong; permanent committee, F, C.Martin, J.H, Millar, og Starke: rep.to B.of R,, R.E.Russell.The banquet was held in Masonic Hall last night.DORIC.No.34, Danville.W.M., J.8.Malby; S.W.C.H.Cleveland; J.W., J.B.Brooks; treasurer, A.McLeay: secretary.A.E.Stockwell; chaplain C.E.Woodley; i 8.D., not appointed yet: J.D., not appointed yet; D.of C., James Riddle; rorganist, H.J.Willlams; stewards ! (8), not appointed; J.G., 0.G., 7.H.Boutelle.The banquet was held in Masonic ; Hall last night.- CORINTHIAN.No.62, Montreal.W.M.\u2026.W.B.H M.Paterson; S.W.Bro.A.W.Cusack: J.W., Bro.Chas.Morrison; treasurer, Bro.A.Rudoiph; secretary, W.Bro.A.N.Brunet: chaplain, _Bro.IL.N.Lefebvre; S.D., Bro.J.W.Steeper; J.D.Bro.H.Dice: D.of C., Bro.H.Girard: orgat.ist, Bro.J.P.Smythe; stewards, Bros.S.Slo- man and J.Finestone; I.G., Bro.John Lawrence; rep.to B.of R., R.W.Bro.H.Dunne.| SEIZURE OF PARTRIDGES ! A \u2014 | Game Protection Officers Spent Christmas in the Wilds and - Secured 169 Birds, Having heard that large quantitie of partridges were being consigned (a Montreal, the Fish and Gamo Protection Association of the Province of Quebec, caused inquiries to be instituted, and the result is, or rather was, that Inspectors Griffiths and Curran spent their Christmas in the wilds.By adopting certain methods which, it is erroneously considered belong to Sherlock Holmes alone, the officers tracked the trapped partridges to their morgue, which proved to be a cellar in the store of a general merchant in Metebechouan, which is on Lake St.John.One hundred and sixty-nine birds were commandeered by the officers and the merchant was told proceedings would be taken against him.Killing partridges for salable purposes is an offence which is punishable with a minimum penalty of one dollar per bird.REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.Mrs.Joseph Reber has sold to Armand Leclair the buildings at the south-west corner of Berri and Cher- rier streets, for $18,550.t | | I boulevard and Laurier avenue, facin La Haye Park, for $15,000.5 Mrs.Reme Chagnon has sold to Arthur Lacroix the bulldings on the south-west corner of Berrl and Ontario streets for $10,000.Alex.Latour has sold to G.C.Pou- street, below Stadacona, for $6,500.Auguste Lafleur has sold to Athan- ase Bernard a lot in Ville St.Louis, with buildings on St.Urbain street, above Villeneuve, for $5,000.The property measures 21 by 108.Raoul D'Orsonnens has sold to Leon George Ryah two lots in St.James Ward, with buildings fronting on Mont- sai, street, below St.Catherine, ior Lawrence A.Whittet has sold to Rufus Filer two vacant lots on Belmont avenue, above Westmount avenue, in Westmount, for $4,520.John Watson has sold to James Cutler two lots, with buildings, on Rozel street, near Charlegix, for $3,600.Hilaire Dupont has seld to J.H.Alb.Bokemier, part of a lot in St.Louis, Labelle street, below St.Zotique, for $3,300.Louis De Guise has sold to Jaseph St.Amand three vacant lots on Es- ylanade avenue, ahove Laurier, in St, Louis, for $3,185.60.\u2014mmm{prmp{ JUDGE CURRAN'S SUCCESSOR.Irish Cathelics Petition to Have One of Their Number Selected.The persistent rumor of the approaching appointment of the Hon.W.A.Welr, Provincial Treasurer, as successor to the late Mr.Justice Cur- ran on the bench of the Superior Court has caused the Irish Catholic element to agitate with a view to have one of their number chosen for the high office.Mr.M.J.Walsh, M.P.P.for 8t.Ann's Division, has just returned from Ottawa, where he presented a petition to Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Minister of Justice, signed by several thousand Irish Roman Catholic citizens, setting torth their claims.The petition states, am other things, that as Mr.Justice Curran was an Irish Catholic he should be replaced by a gentleman of the same faith and nationality, and it 1s understood that the government promised to give the | matter careful consideration.; Those who are favoring the Provincial Treasurer's appointment claim that Mr.Justice Curran replaced Sir Fran- \u2018cis Johnston and that the position should now return to an nglish- speaking Protestant.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014y THE CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE.Mr.O, 8.Perrault Mentioned for the ; Presidency.The name of Mr.O.8.Perranit, a director of the Imperial Tobacco Company.and vice-president of the National Snuff Company, is mentioned as -a candidate for the presidency of the year.ET HOW AN OLD SOLDIER.DIED.The old man who was taken in an unconscious condition to the Notre Dame Hospital and died at the end of last week, has been identified as P.La- haise, an old soldier of the Citadel of Quebec.aise was found lying on the sidewalk on St.Paul street on December 15.SP DEATH OF A BARRISTER.Mr.Joseph J.Close, a barrister, of Albany, N.Y., who has been living at the indsor Hotel for some months past, died of pneumonia at the Homeo- pathfé Hospital yesterday afternoon.The body was sent to New York this - morning.- The decepsed was about 35, years of age.* Ju Andre H.Gendron has sold to the Town of St.Louis the buildings on the .north-east corner of St wrence |- lin a dwelling fronting on Joliette- with the houses Nos 1898 ts 1900 By Chambre de Commerce for the coming.detre | rE bp be ERTS \u2014\u2014_4____pe i H 2 Promotes Digestion Cheerful- |; | ness and Rest Contains neither |\\3 Qpuum Morphine nor Mineral, [i ii Nor NAnrooTIC.i { 4 } i l ) i A A ect Remedy for Cons : | ; de our Stomach Diarehées.EK Worms Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP.| | | Tac Simile Signature of { aoa ail EEE TTY PE WT ERE 3 Jy osre À I 2 § EXACT COPY OV WRAPPER.À Always Bought For Over Thirty Years THE CENTAUN COMPANY, NZW YORK GIT.Sunday School Workers Attention ! A NEW DEPARTURE IN THE \u2018NORTHERN MESSENGER\u2019 Was there ever a child who did not color the pictures in his books?Was there ever a grown up who did not look first at the colored pictures in his magazines?Will not every one of the readers of the \u2018Northern Messenger\u2019 (our Sunday School and Home Weekly) rejoice te hear that our fine new \u2018press prints colors, and that during the coming year there will be colored pictures in the * Northern Messenger.If your Sunday School does not take the \u2018Messenger,\u2019 and would like to distribute it with a view to placing a trial order, we will gladly send you a supply FREE OF CHARGE for three consecutive weeks.with the addresses of the person to whom you wish them sent, stating the \u2018average attendance of your school, and we will enter your order and start with a package of the New Year's issue as long as the supply Holds out.The \u2018Northem Messenger\u2019 has, for over forty years, held the first place in the hearts of the Canadian people, and its inffu- ence can be counted on as the: bert, The regular price of the \u2018Messenger\u2019 to Sunday Schools is only 20 cents per copy per annum in lots of 10 and over to one address, Write at once for a Free Package of the New Year's \u2018Messenger., ADDRESS | JOHN New Year's \u2018Messenger \u2019 Dept.CHRISTMAS MAILS IN LONDON.$triking Increase in Despatches to \" Every Colony Except South Africa.Between November 13 and December 11 there were despatched from the Lon- -don office for Australia and New Zea- land 8,000 bags of letters and newspapers, compared with 7,300 in the corresponding period last ' year.To New Zealand the number of parcels despatched was 14,200 compared with 13.800 last year, and to Australia 9,900 compared with 8,500.To India, China, and Ceylon 12,900 bags of letters, etc., were despatched compared with 13,300 last vear, During the last week in November and the first week in December 24,900 cels were despatched to India and Cayton, compared with 23,800 in the corresponding two Weoks last year.To Canada also a striking increase was recorded.The bags of letters, etc.sent from London numbered 7,260, compared with 6,300 a the period from November 13 to December 11.The parcel business is transacted at Liver-.ol.Po Rritish South Afriza is the only part of the Empire, apparently, in respect of which for some reasôn there is a standstill, The number of bags of malls for the period named was 5,000, about the same as last vear, while the parcels number about 20,000 also prac- ticaHy the same.{pme ZIONIST CONCERT.\u2018The second annual concert\u2019 of the Young Men's Zionist and Literary Society took place on Sunday \u2018evcening | zina, one of the leading members of in the Auditorium Hall.Signor Mel- the Hammerstein Opera Company, un- expe a red and gave several ections.he varlous other items consisted of a sketch entitled \u2018Only one pair \u2018of shoes,\u201d which was ably per- armed the Misses Francis Si nd, F.Flan , P.Hoffman and Messrs.M.Marcus, C.Bindgan and J.Cohen; comic songs by Mr George Partrite, gomedian.plano solos by Miss Bessie kin, and Prof.F.Poirier, and a vio- Mi solo by Migs Marie Desjardins.During the performance, the president, Mr.J.Cahen, presented the Bercovitch Me- torial Medal to the student most pro- ficlent in Hebrew of the local Talmud orab.LONDON-MONTREAL EXPRESS.Speaking at the launch of the steamship.\u2018Pride Rupert\u2019 on day, Wallsend-on-Tyne, MMr.wh Chas stone, general manager of the Bristol Dock Committes; sald he hoped that they would shoftly have the co-opera- tion of the Great Western Hallway of England and the Grand Trunk.Raji- | way of Canada.for the provision of a service of high speed pas er steam- \u2018route betwéen DOUGALL & SON, \u201cWitness\u201d Office, MONTREAL.PE FIRE IN \u2018FAIRYLAND.Operator of Moving Pictures Had Hig Hair Singed.Fire in the \u2018Fairyland\u2019 movi ic- ture show in Notre Dame street west, near St.David\u2019s lane, yesterday afternoon caused some ex:itement, those in the place hurrying into the street as soon as the alarm was given.fire broke out in the electric operati room in the front of the building, an the firemen of No.¢ statien, Chaboillez square, had it put out with a hapd extinguisher.The operator working the moving picture machine had a narrow escape, his bair being singed.The Jamase to the place was slight na the show was proceodin, shortly afterwards.\u201cNS as usual A DEATH \u2018OF MR.ASKEW.His many friends will learn with deep regret of the death of Mr.Edward Askew, which took place yesterday af- tornoon at his residence, 4019 Dorches- eT street ,Westmount.He wag - tive of panda, England, *b sto more than twenty-five ya resident of Montreal, where ie eich integrity and sterling ter, co with great kindness of rt Fave mee him many warm friends.Mr.Askew retired.from active business, in which he was very successful, some three years ago.He has been seriously ailing for about & month past.His funeral will lave his late residence for St.Stephen's Church to-morrow at half-past two o'clock.TT CONCERT IN ST.PAUL'S.To-morrow evening Mr.Frederi .Blair and the cholr of St.Eder Pre bytertan Church will be heard in a concert of sacred song in the church, Dor.chester street, ne < Send us a post card to-day 5 = No 8.and t Class U.\u2014H Skelton, R.Ut hes for | eward, F.8.equal); Brown, M.J.and McDermott, BE.(equal); Cooper, C.H.B Gnaedinger, F D.A.ual).4 Co Class Il\u2014Gougeon, H.D.; Dowiles, | M.A: and Sherman, Boyd, Ww.w.and Case + J.Kearns, J.and Stevens, 8.R.(equal) MeCuaig, T.R.: Bdward THE CANADA MUTUAL 60.\" | ers Setween Avonmouth ro and ontreal.If would form th» shortes: Montreal and London\" \u201c4 .Mr.Justies Peasesu rendered Juds- Loan: péstère py ENE.» PTE IETS Den Li eme » pi pr Ps popup rar [rn pr ire.por Ey 08 RW HE RT WE ER 6 EE EE EE NEW VICTOR RECORDS FOR JANUARY OUT TO DAY Hear these Records and note the wonderfal advances recently made in the Art of Victor recording.F8 DOUBLE-FACED RECORDS a 10-inch size, 90 cents each.( (a) Snow Queen Novelette (Selzer-Fulton) MP; } [No.16427) Pryor's Band.PR 1@ Serenade Elegante (Osier) Victor Orchestra.oy (No.16437) {a Dublin Daisies Merch Arthur Pryor's Band.0.16435 (3) Coou's Birthday (Cakewalk\u2014Two Step) (No.16435) : Viet or Orchestra.RE (a) Miserere from 11 Trovatore (Verdi) Trombone aes and Cornet (No.16371) or and Keneke.(8) Spring Song (rien elssohn) \\\" ) (Ne.16371) Bb Victor String Quartet.\u2026; a) Dream After the Ball, Xylophone £8 | ) Nor 16 yiop William H.Reits, \\@ rightest Days Gavotte, Bell Solo ; (No.16428) , William H.Reitz, fta) When I Merry You (Bryan\u2014Gumble) (te) aes) HU halle Hladonough and Quartet.(8) Éyance Babe (Drislane\u2014Richards) No.16433) American Quartet, (a) Amoureuse Waltz (Berger) Concertina .P.Frosini, No, 16434 A 3 (3) The Swiss Shepherd, Ocarina Mase Tapicro.\\¢ \u201cNo.14434) QU /(e) Father Was Out (Hit) Murray K.Hill.° ° Ris, ; .16436) Te (3) Flanagan's Motor Car (Porter) Steve Porter.Biv.(206.16436) #; (a) Melly Lee dura and Haydn Quartel, \" 0.1 : \u2019 (8) Little Mise Golden Curls 7 Byron G.Harlan.T (No.16437) (æ) Lpve Light Waltz (Bloom) Victor Orchestra.(8) Remintacences of ee (Godfrey) eminisce \\ (Na.35091) ye Pryovs Band.The Grest: Fourth Act Duet from Aida Johanss Gadeki~\u2014~Rorico Caruso Twelve.dnch, with cechestra,\u2014$4.00 each- -In Italian Alda\u2014Finale ultimo (Parte lo) (La fatal pietra) (The Fatal Stone) (No.da\u2014Finale ultimo (Parte 20) (O terra addio) (No, 89029) (Farewell, Oh Earth) Verdi Three Records by the New - Manhattan Tenor Nicola Zerola, Tenor Ten-inch, with orchestra, $2.00 each\u2014In Italian Balla in Maschera\u2014Barcarolle, \u201cDi\u2019 tu se fidele\u201d {The Waves Will Bear Me) (Mo.87036) Verdr Balle in Maschera-La rivedra nell' estasi (I Shall Behold Her) (No.87037) Verdi Twelve-inch, with orchestra, f3.c0 cach\u2014In Italian Otelle-\"Moria d'Otello (Death of Othello) Verdi 0.88203) a Liszt and Saint-Saëns Numbers | by Homer Iouise Homer, Contralto Twelve-inch, with orchestra, $3.00 each Die i (The Loreley) German (No.88204) Liszt Samson et Dalila\u2014Amour viess aider (Oh Lave, Lend Me Thy Might) French rmÉ-SCèRS \\ { { (No, 88201 Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry) (No.5758) té pr SR .New Victor.Recerds on sale throughout Canada on the 1st of every month.Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Limited, Montreal.Sold in U.S.A.by Victor Talking Machine Ce.Parlors-415 St.Catherine str (8) Oh, You (No.164 (e) Remembrance (Pinsuti) 'cello-\u2014-flute {e arch Lorraige (Ganne) {No.1 {@ Assembly March (Seltzer) (a) I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (Howard) ( from \u201cThe Prince of To-night\") Billy Murray.(No.1 .5 Monkey Honeymoon Collins and Harlan.( On a y (Nos 16426) Beauty Spot\u2018) (No.16420) Billy Murray.von dy Kid (Goldcu\u2014Adams) da Jones.{a 8h Sells Sea Shells (Clifford) (from \u201cThe 0.164329) [(@® Remember Me, O Mighty One (Soldier's Farewell with sacred words) (No.16430) hkitmey Brothers Quartet.5) Galilee (No.16430) Whitney Brothers Quartet, Out te Life Line (Ufford-Stehbins) a) Throw Out th e «Ps ord No.16431) Macdonough = Quartet, 3) Onward Christian Soldiers (with band) .(No.16431) Weatminster Cathedral Chorr.No.16432) Fraina and Lyons.6432) 12-inch size, $1.50 each Pryors Band, {No.oe 1 ses (5) Haviland Harmonies (No.16415, Pryors Band.(a) Joyous Vienna Waltz (Fidelas Wien) .(Komzak) Victor Dance Orchestre.(No.35091) (8) Flowers of St, Petersburx.roitecs (Reaseh) (No.3892) Vicior : Orchestra.(a) Hortense dg Sea (No.) Nat M.Wills.18) The Tie Cheese 35093 (No.350833: >, Murray K.Hill, NEW RED SEAL RECORDS Three-New Gerville-Réache Records Jeanne Gerville-Réache, Contralto Ten-inch, with-orcliestss, $3.00 eachwIn French Chanson Slave (Slavonic Song) (No.87035) Chaminade Carmen\u2014En vain pour éviter (Card Song) Bizet (No.87039) Twelve-inch, with orchestra, $3.00\u2014In French Reine de Saba\u2014Plus grand dans son obecuri té (\u201cMore-Regal Than a King\" from \"Queen of Sheba\u2019) (No.86205) Gounod The Favorite Faust Cavstina by Scotti Antonio Scotti, Baritone _ Twelve-Inch, with orchestra, $3.00\u2014Italian \u2018Faust\u2014Dio possente (The Bravest Heart 8hall Swell (No.88203) (r .Connod A New Williams Ballad Evan Williams, Tenor Ten-inch, with orchestra, Si.a5~Iy Eaglish Absent (No.64209) Metcalf The January Special Hit A Single Faced Record by Billy Murray with Orchestra.9s cents.Albert Von Tilzer\u2014Junie McCree.Any dealer will gladly play these Records for you.S\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 CHRISTMAS EXAMINATIONS.The results of the examinations in second year analytical géometry, Faculty of Applied Science, at McGill University, were posted yesterday: à Class 1.\u2014Weir, J., Davis, J.C., Peen, O.N.(equal): Rosters, A.Norris, J.ment of the 8 B.; McLeod, D.L., and Tebbutt, Hayward, J.G., Des- H.; Duggan, H.ching, G.R.(equal).and M.J aid Burr; (equal); Mc- T.and Viel- L.H.: ll, F-.Æ.(equal) ; .(equal); B.and Robertson, C.Wednesda, ed as the yman, W.; en, B.questretor.(equal); Jelly, E.; Barnes, F.- : liam Warden, ing.\u2018It is T., Lesage, G.W., Shaw (eq J.J.(equal); F.and: : larger.a, H.Li.and | = P.and Saunders, R.V.and the appointment of a sequestrator to the assets of the Canady Mutual Fire Insurance Company, pending the appeal to the Supreme Court from the judg- erior Court, confirmed by the Court of Review, which put said company in liquidation and appointed Mr.Honorius Laurencelle liquidator.next, December 29, was fixate for the cholcu of the se- \u2014pofprtmpermnpe TOO MUCH CHARITY.\u2018There is too much indiscriminate charity in England,\u2019 said who 1s an American commercial man just back from London, to a \u2018Witness\u2019 re ossible for a man to get his breakfast in any one of the numer- \u2018ous soup kitchens, get his lunch at another, and his dinner somewhere else, \"| and places are provided where he can aleep free of charge.Under such conditions as these the army of unemploy- ables is daily becoming larger and TENTS YOR CANADIANS.Mr.Owen N.Evans, Solicitor of Pa- tants and Expert, Merchants Bank Build- last heard o 1872.enteen years ago.Mr.Wil- ago, Florida.Sister-in-law rter this morm- later.ask.(Father dead.) non, Britis Brother Alfred asks.ada in 1880.a CR en, THR \u201cpe ve PPS'S strength, delicacy of Sa vour, Butritionagees yRwe Rope h varuphatet Smart (Albert Willlam with his wife and two March, 1905, and were last: heard of at Coleman.East Toronto, twa months Stepmother, brother, and sisters Write for free catalogue of our 3000 Records.t is a treat to Childwén,'a sus to the: thrifty housewife.Harvie D EU - e © \u2018of going to asks.e s eft England children in Rickwood (Frank) wrote from Vere Columbia, in January, 1907.Greer (Tobn Edward), formerly, of Greer's Rocks, and, wen Sister Mary Ann asks.ppp PROMOTION TO SHERIFF.Cane BC ry, 5.5.oun): Bord.oT.«a roy, 8.ual); Cummer, ited Stat L.Lofebvre, and Weber, K.Io, reports LEE de Canadiens last vost pui ne question of the succession to al) es.A; 85 Bow.T.B.943.703, \u201cankle support, W.McLinden:| oe Montreal ie still being discussed in equal): Arms , JOD a Bolton, 943.808.signal lantern, C.P.Browne; oO n 1 d th vernment 4 .I.and Fay, .afd McDougald, 843823, bedstead.F.G.Gale; 948,888, in- legal circles, an en e 5e rome W.H.(equal); Turnbull.A.and terlocking metallic shingle, G.Pedlar; credited with the in ent on of 840 ba War J.A.and Wheatley, J.H, | 248.943, hydraulic motor, A, 0 L@role: the system of whole redistribution of- vont annineton fuer Jens and sie alto rail controlling device, À places in the office.: gr \u2019 = ., Jokhin; 948.Calc n m y .\u2014\u2014eo{raveam,yp ; MeMahon, J.W.and Masson, D.H.: 944,001, chemical closet, W.O, end Schippel, À.F- and Vallence, K.Bheater; $14,080, ped frame, F.G.Gale: A caribou which came Into Sones W.(equal); Hadley, Di and Lynéh, | $44,110, reinforced concrete construction, Norther th J.A, and Ronnaldson, D.B.(equal): 8.H.Summerscales; 944,144, vegetable nadian orn - on the Sedtt, A.N.and Rolland, H.(equal): strainer.J.McDonald: 24h11, cloth | near Quebec, was instantaneously kif.Austin, A.nd Gopsela, wv L.and sur achine, B.D.Wi ht ed ) ne | or, * + and oft, .n - : arth, C and Greham, Ë.J.and Hug- HX ES OOD-VALUE Fohne A.K.Jind Hu hson, J, W.and GH T F v.ohnson, an PERSE pea [DERE PAD Tibet .a _ dde et West.(i: MISSING RELATIVES.Readers possessing intormation as to the following inquiries from the Old Country are requested to communicate with the editor.\u2018Witness, Montreal Clark (Margaret and Elizabeth) were at Lawrence, Mass.in Nephew James asks.Davies (John), an engineer's fitter, was last heard of at Philadelphia sev- .Sister Jane asks.Davison (Alfred John) went to Cans ada in 1907; was an attendant at un asylum at Montreal fourteen byt was thinking mn + 4 EP RQ ce FRE hr rod 4 p RR eS UT LS Te TL TET et a RP SR ETES A a.BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS Notices of oirths, marriages and deaths, must invariably be endorsed with the name and address of the sender, OF otherwise Do notice can be taken © them.Birth notices are inserted for 25c., marriaie notices for boo.deat notices for 25c.prepaid.The announce ment of funeral appended to death os tice, 25c extra; other extensions : obituary, ruch as short sketch of We tw cents per word extra, except poetry.which ts 50c per line extra prepald.Annual subscriters may bave announcements births, marriages and deaths (without extended obltuary or verses) occurring in their immediate families free of charge, in which case name and address cf subscribers should be given.BIRTHS.FRANKLIN\u2014On Dec.19, 1909, to Mr.and Mrs.W.A.Franklin,19 Rosemount avenue, Ottawa, a son.GRAHAM\u2014At Cushing, Que.on Dec.25, 1909, the wife of Archie Graham, of a daughter.HAYES\u2014At Hemmingford, Que., on Dec.24, 1909, a daughter to Mr.and Mrs.W.T.Hayes.MINNES\u2014In Kingston, Ont, on Dec.23, 1909, to Mr.and Mrs.Wm.T.Minnes, à sun.MACKENZIE\u2014At Victoria, B.C., on Dec.22, 1909, a son to Mr.and Mrs.Norman Mackenzie, of Sidney, B.C.THOMPSON\u2014On Dee.12, 1909,at 21 Talbot Road, Bayswater, London, England, the wife of Harrington Onslow Thompson, of a daughter.} TILLEMONT-THOMASON-\u2014On Dec.17, 1909, at 29 Stanley Gardens, Hamp- stead, London, England, Lizzie May (née Jackson), the wife of Frederic Eruest Tillemont-Thomason, C.E.F.Ph.8., F.R.8.G.S., founder of the Em- ire Educational League, of a daughter Coramée de Courtheil).MARRIED.BRUCE\u2014MeKELL\u2014At the residence of the bride's parents, \u2018Ingleside Cottage, - Riverfield, Que., on Dec.22, 1908, by! the Rev.R.L.Ballantyne, Bryce Bg- | bert Bruce, of Aubrey, to Muriel Mary Ann, daughter of Mr.and Mrs.Matthew MeKell.GARVIN\u2014MURDOCK\u2014At Sandy Hook, Ont., on Dec.22, 1909, by the Rev.W.W.Peck, of Arnprior, Margaret P.Murdock, of Sandy Hook, to Lewis J.Garvin, of Ottawa.MACPHERSON \u2014 RIDOUT \u2014 On Dec.23, 1909, at Christ Church Cathedral,\u2019 Ottawa, by the Rev.Lenox I.Smith, Edith, daughter of the late Thomas Ridout an Mrs.Ridout, to Robert Coats Macpherson, son of the late Duncan Ferguson Macpherson and Mrs.Macpherson, of Clinton.O'HARA\u2014COMPTON\u2014In Kingston, Ont, on Dec.23, 1909, by the Rev.J.K.Mac- Morine, Emma Compton, second daughter of James Compton, 76 Arch street, to George O'Hara, of Watertown, N.Y.\" DIED.ASKEW\u2014At 4019 Dorchester street, on Dec 27, 1909, Edward Askew, in the 60th year of his age.Funeral on Wednesday, the 29th, at half-past two o'clock, to St.Stephen's Church, Weredale Park.Toronto and Perth, Ont, please copy.BENNIE\u2014At Riverfleld, Que.on Dec.23, 1909, Robert Bennie, in the 82nd year of his age.CREIGHTON \u2014 Suddenly, on Dec.25, 1909, at the age of 70 years, James Creighton, of the Crown Lands De ment, Quebec.CORRIGAL\u2014At Cobourg, Ont, on Dec.26, 1909, Catharine Corrigal, daughter of the late Jacob Corrigal, of the Hudson's Bay Company, in her 95th year.papers COCHRANE\u2014At Queen Charlotte, Queen |: Charlotte Islands, British Celumbia Elizabeth Margaret, infant.of Donald: Cochrane.cut DEWART\u2014On Dec.23, 1909, gr Jer date i residence, No.34 Bayswate#£vei; «| tawa, Elizabeth Gouldthorpé; 'Wifé' bf the late Joseph Dewart, aged 81 years ard 3 months.JER DUNCAN\u2014At Windsor, Ont.,, Catherine Freeman, wife of James Duncan.\u201d 8led Friday, Dec.10, 1908, in her 70th year.| GOUGH-\u2014At his late residence, 4853 Western avenue, on Dec.27, 1909, after a long illness, Thomas Gough, aged 81 years.Funeral from above address on Wednesday, Dec.29th, at 2.30 p.m., to Mount Royal Cemetery.Friends and ac- Quaintances please accept this intimation.Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Old Country papers please copy.HARVIE-\u2014At Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec.23, 1909, William Harve, druggist, brother of Mrs.J.R.Dyke, Westmount.JONES\u2014At Niagara Falls, Ont, at the residence of her sotr-in-law, Mr.Alex.| Fraser, 445 River Road, on Christmas Daÿ, Mary A.Jones, in her 84th year.MAHON\u2014On Dec.18, 1909, at Highfleld, Belmont Road, Bushey, Herts, England, Bessie, wife af F.C.Mahon, and daughter of the late Willlam H.De Woif, Esq., of Wolfville, Canada.NORMAN\u2014At Montreal West, on Dec.28, 1909, George Norman, aged 83 years.Funeral private.SAUNDERS\u2014On Dec.9 1909, at Cambridge House, Harmondsworth, Middie- sex, England, Frederic John Saunders, F.R.G.S., F.R.C.I., (formerly of British Columbia), aged 69.SHANKS\u2014At Huntingdon, Que.on Dec.24, 1909, Daniel Shanks, in the 83rd year of his age.BHARP\u2014At St.Lambert, Que., on.Friday, Dec.24, 1909, William David Sharp, born Sutton, Surrey, Eng., aged 77 years.Funeral private, THOMPSON\u2014At Toronto, on \u2018Dec.286, 1909, Edward Thompson, aged 26 years.Those sending notices for the aisove columu may send with them a list of names of interested friends together with a one- cent stamp for each address, anu marked copies of the \u2018Witness\u2019 containing the notice will bé promptly malled.For addresses in foreign countries three cents .will be required.* \"EES & CO., Funeral Directors, 912 ST.OATHERINE W.Phone Up 1652.(Note change of Address.) FOR THEBOY | Hobbies are an interesting and Instructive pastime for youths.parti- ularly during the long winter even- fogs.A box of Tools for Seroll, Pret and Bent Iron work, only $1.00.We have sole Canadian agency.D.DRYSDALE, Phone M.169.159 CRAIG ST.WEST.2 SNOW BLOCKADE.Food Problem in Philadelphia a Serious One, Philadelphia, Dec.28.\u2014With food products becoming scaréer and their price consequently higher, with street | railway traffic uncertain and slow, and with many railway trains arriving late.Philadelphia is still busy raising the blockade caused by the great Christmas snowstorm.With the opening of all transportation lines business is repidly reviving, but the most serious problem to be met is the food supply.Only 25 percent of the daily milk supply reached the city yesterday, and wholesale miik dealers estimated that to-day\u2019s supply will be 25 percent below normal.Eggs, vegetables and other food products are scarce, and prices have.gone up all around.It is expected, however, that to-day will see.the .snow blockade sufclently raised.to.enable farm pr ; Bb more easily trans- Passeriger trains are still running a \u201cMontreal, - - AE St.Catherine Street West \u2018 These Seamless Squares FROM ENGLAND | Should Have Been Here | Six Weeks Ago.Now We Must Clear Them at the Maker\u2019s Loss.In October, when many people are in need of new floor- coverings, etc., these squares would be snapped up quickly at their regular prices\u2014we feel certain of that.But, arriving now, when the demand is slight, we must mark them at reduced rates, and charge the maker with the loss.They are first-class squares in every regard\u2014no \u2018seconds\u2019 or faulty ones included.The designs and colorings are in splendid assortment, and all that could be desired.Made without any seams and offered as follows: - Size 6 ft.9 inches, $18.00 value, $13.98.Size 9 ft.x 10 ft.6 inches, $27.00 value $21.75.Size 9 ft x12 ft.6 inches, $30.00 value $24.95.Size 10 ft.6 in.x12 ft, $35.00 value, for $28.75.MORE RUGS SHARPLY REDUCED TO-MORROW ! Tapestry Carpet Squares 15 dnly Pretty Tapestry Carpet Squares, in Greens, Crimsons, Fawns, etc.A good, hard-wearing carpet, in suitable patterns for any room in the house.Size 9x9 ft.Would be considered good value at $7.00.To-morrow for.+.ss te ne se se | .ry a Rugs 9 only Reversible Smyrna Rugs, in Deep Rich Crimson, Oriental designs\u2014 being reversible they will give double wear.Very -suitable for Sitting Rooms, Dining Rooms, Library and Office.Size 3x4 yards.Regular value $26.00.To-morrow for.{ \u2014Third Floor.$1 4.98 ) x x - a \u2014 Limited.= rarcal Return Gifts F perchance some kind friend unexpectedly remembered you on Christmas Day, recollect that this is a week of gift-giving, and that this store's stock is never allowed to become spare.HENRY BIRKS & SONS LIMITED Phillips\u2019 Squafe | \\ i | | himself pr par CHAPMAN'S BOOKSTORE CHAPMAN'S 23 NOW READY FOR THE NEW YEAR\u2019S BUSINESS An Entirely New Steck of NEW YEAR CARDS, just received and displayed in our new Show Room, which proved so popular during Christmas time.- 8513 - BOOKSTORE.C s St Catherine Gtreet W.New Year's Gifts! present, purse at JOHNSON & COPPING'S 634 St.Catherine Street.(Petween at\"?Oréegent), The Room Where Ladies\u2019 Ciothes Are ironed | \u2014\u2014 AT THE \u2014 Toilet Laundry \u2018THE LAUNDRY THAT KNOWS HOW; is 60 ft.square, with 14 ft.ceiling, and hardwood ficor, lighted on all four sides.No wonder they turn ont suéh gooll work.Phone Up 3480.425 RICHMOND ST.New \u2018Year\u2019s Gifts ! | A picture framed or unframed makes a most acceptable.Dee what may be had to suit every taste and \"APPEAL FOR THE RELIEF OF PROTESTANT P)R The Board of Outdoor Belief, which has recently been appointed in connection with begin their work for the wir er on Tharsday.; at 9.o'clock, and appeal! to the Priends of the Institution for funds sufficient to enable them to carry on the w.rk, as it is.expected that many demands be made on their resources to relieve deserving ones.Contributions will be thankfully received by the following mem the Board of Management: y s bers of The Montreal Protestant House of Industry and M-fuge, i Morning, 23rd Mr.J.C.HOLDEN, 377 Mountain street.Lieut.-Col.J.H.BURLAND, $'Bleury street.Mr.CHARLES BYRD, 51 Victoria.square.- Mr.- JOHN PATTERSON, 450 St.Paul street.Mr.JAMES RODGER, 21 St.» Helen street.a Hon.J.K.WARD, 18 Rosemount avenue, Westmount, or at the office of the House of Refuge, 193 Dorchester.Bj (Want.will 9 will VW.A.'STEPHENSOK, Secretary.have a lot of Sample Purses, Ticket E W Cases, Wallets, Art Calendars and I'ictures suitable for Holiday Gifts, all at halfs price.Also THREE LADIES\u201d 7 KARAT GOLD \u2018| WATCHES, small size, open face (samples) which we offer at $5.00 each in nice box.We are receiving many commendations for our 3 $2.50 FOUNTAIN PEN, selling at $1.50.You ¢ cannot buy a better Pen at any price.By mail to any address.LAWRENCE & CO, Ltd, JAMES STREET, > 251 ST.4 ; .Phone Main: 4 179.MONTREAL.the Pennsylvania rallway tralns w Uttle iste.The New York division of ten to thirty minutes behind thé sched- | that of yesterday, although \u201cit ule early in the ddy.The suburban |in a somewhat tangled stale.\u2014 ere | traffic is also greatly.improved |and a musical \u2018\"I*'who come to t eo |:ises, ire the following: i You have probably noticed how much more briskly the fire burns when freshly built or shaken.You doubtless remember too, how much more briskly you used to get around when you were in your \u2018teens or twenties.The cases are parallel.You are like the fire that is choked with ashes.The cells which compose the body are constantly dying and being renewed.Then there is the indigestible part of the food to be removed.This cleansing of the body is the duty of the bowels, kidheys and skin.When any of these organs fail to do their work properly, the system becomes clogged and the fire of lite burns low.There is an increasing tendency towards constipation, kidney trouble and poisoned blood as one grows older.In most cases, the need is felt of 3ome- thing to regulate these vital organs.\u2018Fruit-à-tivas\u2019 the famous fruit medicine, does this perfectly.It acts directly on the liver, increasing the flow regularly and nagurally.\u2018Fruit-a-tives' is the greatest of kidney regulators, overcoming ths Jéndency to congestion of the kidneys ahd strengthening these organs.\u2018Pruft-f-tives\u2019 also stimulates the skin to rénewed action.By their combined action on bowels, kidneys and skin, \u2018Fruit-e-tives\u2019 keeps the system free of all poisons and res: news the vigor of youth.: to \u2018Fruit-a-tiveg are sold bx all dealers at 60c a box.I$ for $2.50,7or trial box, 26c\u2014or may.bp obtained from \u2018Fruit-a- tives\u2019 Limited, Ottawa.° LETTERS FROM READERS.LET THERE BE MORE LIGHT.(To the Editor of the 'Witness.\u2019) Sir,\u2014My attention has been called to a letter in yqur last Friday's edition headed \u2018More Light.\u2019 signed by Mr.J.S.Norris, secretary-treasurer of the M.L.H.& P.Co, in which Mr.Norris refers to r.y interview which lately appeared in the \u2018Star\u2019and the \u2018Presse, Te prices for light in other Canadian cities, and in which, through a clerical error.the contract price of $47.50 per arc lamp of the city of Hamilton was given to Toronto.As soon as I discovered the error I immediately telephoned the editor of the \u2018Witness\u2019 to correct \u2018the figures to $57.49.Mr.Norris claims that the last figure 1s also Incorrect, and that the contract for Toronto Is $69.70, and comments thet until I get fairly lapd- ed on .my feet: consideration of my official figures need not be given, \u2018and that the same remarks may be made as to the figures of the other places quoted.vos .Now, let us see.If Mr.Norris will read over again the Torgnto contract, and read .ft right through, which apparently he did.not, he will find that in his haste he has shot his gun off at half cock.On page sixteen of the contract he will find the third clause from the top which reads as follows: \u2018If at any time during the above period of ten years the number of lamps should be increased to 1,760, the price will be reduced to 153-4 cents per light per night, or $57.49 per light per annum.\u2019 7 Now, as the.needs of Montreal in a new contract exceeds this number the higher price kflause he quoted cannot enter as a comparison.I have not the pleasure of the same personal acquaintance with My.Norris as 1 enjoyed with the late Mr.Wal- bank.I] had IIam sure he would have left out of hi letter all\u2019 words which of good faith, at least-until he .got ly~pgsted on my figures._ Mr.Ner ges not seem.to be even properly posted on the company\u2019s own contraets.Fof instance, he refers to that: famous te.-Cunegonde and St.Henri light contract.Mr.Norris claims that it calls for $90 per lamp with a period of stilf 35 years to run, and wishes to make it appear as an act of great generosity on the part of his company to reduce that to $76 if a general contract is accepted by the city.Again, Mr.Norris shows that he does not know his book.In the first place that contract has mot 35 years to run, and if he will read the contract over -again he will find a certain clause that knocks out all the | virtue of his pretensions, as in that contract there is a clause that provides for the revision of the prices every ten years.The price has already been revised from $103 to $90.and the second ten years will be up in three or four years, and will then again be eubject to revision, and if much below that price, and that without even thanks to the company for any reduction that may be obtained.Judging by his imputations, Mr! Norris appears to be laboring under a mistaken impression.I am not so blind an enemy of his company as he seems to make it appear.I have again and again tried to impress on Mr.Wal- bank that the'tariff of the company is too dahgeroudly: high for both gas end electricity foRp¢he future good of the company în tbe face\u2019'of what is being done \u2018in \u201cour \u2018neighboring cities.\u2018 Besides, as the pretension of the company is that they will actually lose money at $75: per arc lamp.then my advocating of a municipal plant, if carried out, wil] save the company just so much an 1 loss.and should be taken as a friendly act by Mr.Norris d his company.an ve © JOSEPH WARD.pme ANANIAS VERY BUSY.How a Liquor Trade Campaign ls Carried On.Toronto, Dec.27.\u2014 The Provincial Secretary's Department, after a careful enquiry.by the local inspector, an- noynces that, the advertisements and ' newspaper articles issued In the interests of the liquor trade and stating in general terms that crime and pôvet- ty have increased in Owen Sound since local option, was adopted,-.and.that druggists, respectable citizens and others sold - liquor Hlicitly and that others peripred themselves, were a tissue of gross misrepreseritations and were in no.way whatever borne out by.-the facts It i8 further declared .|.that the advertisements and statements are untrue in fact _ \u2018 Chorus acquitted themselves very creditably, and every praise is due Mr.HT.Dickinson, \u2018the conductor, for the trouble he has taken: to.18 the chorus up to the \u2018present standard.Four better soloists have seldogy: been heard fh Montreal, treat is In store for those The organist, Mr.J.E.F.Martin, and the pianist, Miss Edith Cousins, brov- ed efficient accompaniats.co | FIRE AT 8T.HYACINTHE.On Sunday morning, at one o'clock, a fire broke out in the large bulldinæ owned by Messrs.W.O.David & Co., corner of Cascèdes and Moudor:streets, St.Hyacinthe.The building was oc- eupled by everal soaants, and.the prin sutierers oy .the | - which almost completely destroyed.the.\u2018a weekly journal; the BE.T.Sk ian, - and a.2 , i A LAT ae td ay de Like a diave Ohoked with Ashes of bile and caugys the bowels to move |- are intended 16! convey doubt or want properly adjusted I think it will be made \u2018performance to-nighz À m- | The Tribune; os Com ; dresser; T Pre- t all their ab 11 Zouaves léverybodÿ not to say a atrimonts 1e wirement | YE \u2018 = AL DAILY WITNESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 35, 1909 ass eds i You Need Shaking?! cms axmorateo Fire, Committee - \u2018 Approves Work of Ald.Yates and Promptly Undoes it.SUB-CHIEFS DUBOIS AND MARIN BACK TO DUTY PENDING CITY COUNCIL'S ACTION.The City Fire Committee yesterday afternoon \u2018approved\u2019 the action of the chairman, Ald.Yates, in suspending Sub-Chiefs Marin and Dubois, and in the same breath resolved to reinstate them.The action of the chairman was prompted by the report of Judge Cannon, in which he said Dubois and Marin had been guilty of malversation.ermen Nault and Gadbois were referred to in equally serious terms in the same report, and they were both present as mémbers of the committee yesterday afternoon, when the following motion was adopted, on the pro- po ion of Ald.Mercier, without op- on; \u2014 \u2018That this committee approves the position taken by the chairman and the chief of the Fire Department in regard to Sub-Chiefs Dubois and Marin, in order to bring thé matter before the committee.Under the circumstances, this committee, however, does not think it ought to take action in F4dds- question before tne City Council and the Law Depa: ve opened up proceedings in the er; and this committee (Considers, it its duty de re- co the immed reins! en ofthe said Sub oniate Dubois\u201d and Marin ip cheir respective positions, this refnstatement to take effect as far as salary Is.concerned from the date of the suspension.\u2019s In referring to his action which was put into effect last Thursday, Alderman Yates sald that before giving orders to Chief Tremblay on the matter, he had called a meeting of the Fire Committee so that the matter might be fully discussed.Unfortunately it was not possible to get together a quorum.of members, and the meeting consequently could not be held.He had thought the matter over very thoroughly.discussed It with one of his confreres, and had also consulted the Mayor on the subject.\u2018After these : various discussions,\u2019 continued Ald.Yates, \u2018I came to the conclusion\u2014a good: teal on my own account\u2014that, as chairman of the Fire Committee, {t wa5 firumbent upon me to take some action in relation to Dubois and Marin, who were reported by Judge Cannon to be not only unfit for their positions in the department, but blameworthy.Being unable to obtain a meeting of the committee, I took it upon myself to authorize Chief Tremblay to suspenu the {wo sub- chiefs in question, until there could be a meeting of this committee.If I acted hastily, it must be accounted to my keenness and anxiety for what I believed to be best for the interests of the department and esprit de corps in the brigade.1 have not seen any members of the committee since then, but I have read criticisms in the press from which I understand it is considered I have been too hasty in my action.Personally, I-do not think I have acted with undue haste at all.As Judge Cannon's report was definitely before the City Council, I thought it was my duty to suspend Dubois and Marin until we could meet together as a committee.Ald.Yates then asked the committee for an expression of opinion 88 to whether the suspension should or should not remain in force, Ald.Mercier thereupon submitted the proposition reported above, at the same time expressing a& hope that it would \u2018be atoptéd \u2018urarmimousiy.-;.\u201cCafrfed\u201d\u201d said Ald.Robillard, and the other members .: There Were present Re th# meeting Aldeïmien Yates, - Mercier: LaYriviere, Rohillard, Gadbois and Nault: ~ 2° The only other member of the committee, Ald.McKenna, was.absent.After the meeting, Ald.Mercier sald the decision of the committee was not a reflection on the chairman.They had approved his manner of bringing to their notice the findings of the Royal Commission, but they were of opinion it was not advisable to proceed against the men before the City Judge Cannon.The business before the meeting, excepting the cases of the two officers, was routine.: .It was decided to accept the tende.of the Northern Electric Company for supplying certain brake wheels and springs for the fire alarm boxes, which are needed to bring the boxes more In accord with the new fire alarm system, at a cost of $3,438.It was the only tender.Ald.Gadbois asked if it were true that the wheels and springs could be made for about $3 a box, or half the price of the tender.Mr.Ferns, superintendent of the Fire Alarm Department, sald the low price quoted by Ald.Gadbois was out of the question.; \u2019 It was decided to appoint L.A.Charest, an operator in the fire alarm system, and A.Paquin was taken on as an assistant operator.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 READABLE PARAGRAPHS FRIEND WITH GOOD INTENTIONS.Mrs.Holt could be.depended upon at almost any time to say the wrong thing with the best intentions in the world.\u2018Nobody minds what poor dear Fanny Holt says,\u2019 her friends told each other when repeating her remarks.\u2018We know she means all right.\u2019 | \u2018Isn't it queer how differently things affect people?one of Mrs.Holt's neighbors sald to her the day after a beach picnic.\u201cWe both got tired to death, you and I, but you say you've had just a little bit of indigestion while I have this fearful blind headache.\u2019 \u2018Why, that's perfectly natural,\u2019 said Mrs.Holt cheerily.\u2018Of course when people gre tired out it goes.straight to the weakest part of them.Mine is my stomach at\u2018 éVéfybodÿ Énows yours is.your head, poor dear!\u2019\u2014From the \u2018Youth\u2019s Companion.\u2019 \u2019 : - - \u201cIt takes all kinds of people to make & world,\u2019 sald the ready-made philosopher.\"| .\u2018Certainly,\u2019 answered the plain person, \u2018look at explorers.Some.of them excel 5 ee tare.toad 4 | With Josthematical instruments and some The.Mok .\u201cSociety.Held a with: typewriters and piétarec idehimap public #e TRE Tour Megat lst washington- \u2018Biar.: \"TBE 5 nf night pa tha A James : \u201c Methodly: CC RE tar.\u2019 3 \u2018hurot«befgge a fairly large and very |\u201c -&' NEW THACKEN ue -enthuslastié\u2019 audience.The \u2018( A\u201d NW THACKER z: The \u2018Hon,.Sir BE 'Chandds Léigh, item aba mS Miss Gobéilts Says the \u2018that Was Eaten There is Good for all Diseases.Life in \u2018he garden nf Eden, before the fall of man, wal held up as an example and a model in matters relating to élut by Miss Gobeille, who lectured befcre the Vegstarian Society of Canada in the Y.M.C.A.last night.She laid down as a principle that mankind hdd to recognize that the cause of all disease was disobedience \u2014the result.of sinning against the laws of nature.\u2018The fruit of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat were tha instructions given when man was created and man could depend on what God\u2014nis greater wisdom, told him.Is it-a sin to eat meat?you will ask, said Miss Gobeille.Well, it is a sin to eat anything that makes you sick.You can draw your \u201dwn conclusions, and how is it that the human family began to eat flesh meat?I don\u2019t say that it is a sin to eat meat; I don\u2019t know that I ever will say it; but I will say this, if it was the best food for man or woman to eat, would not God have sald so in the beginning?Before man sinned he did not eat meat.It Was only after he disobeyed the law of\u2018God that he began.Pork was never allowed; it was an unclean animal and that is one of the reasons of so many sicknesses to-day\u2014because of disobedience.You have all had some of it, and you know how sick it has made you, as well as me.I want you to try and remember that fruits are good for medicine.If you are run down the best thing for you is apples, grapes and raisins.If you are suffering from that dread disease that is getting so common in our days, cancer\u2014ah ves, there is something In that beautiful garden of Eden that is medicine for it.Cranberries and figs are most excellent for it.If you have been doing so many things that the general work of the body i8 almost stopped, if you have had to take medicine and, it is not helping any more, you get prunes, natural as they are, boil them well, don't use sugar-\u2014eat them that way and it will be better than any dose of medicine.If you are troubled with your nerve, perhaps you will Je surprised and astonished to hear that tnere is a fruit good for nerves.In fact they are ali Bood, but one that I know that is extra good is pomegranates; another that is very very good is grape fruit.So you can see from these few samples that there is a great deal of medicine in fruits.You will find a fruit that is god for every complaint.This garden of Eden is rich in drug stores, but they are the best kind of drug stores because thare is no poison in it.Another reason is that its drugs are nourishing instead of destructive.They build up instead or tearing down.So do you wonder that druggists don\u2019t like me very weli?After all, druggists are not my enemies.It is their own good I have in view.I don't mean to take their employment away from them-\u2014let them make a little change for taeir own good as well as for the gocd of humanity at large\u2014 let them nurse the fruit trees instead of studylug so hard over mixing poisonous drugs together.It is .easlly understood that we are made of what we eat.Take two bulls and put them together, the stronger always kills the other.If we partake of that flesh can we expect to be very good natured.Can you say this of fruits?It doesn\u2019t make any difference how many appl:3 ther» are in a barrel together -\u2014dld you ever see any of them fight?So you see if you want to be gpad natured vat fruits \u2018and not fienh ms I haÿe seen a g00û many fruits, but i never saw any of them complain of an ache or a pain.So according to this again if you want to be well don't eat flesh meat.Fruit plays a great role in our diet and also in.vur dispositions, and it also has a lot to do with whether we are well or not.You should not eat because things taste good.You should eat for strength and always remember you should not cat to surfeit.Questions on.the subject of the lecture were answered at the close, and a collection was taken up to help Miss Gobeille to defray the costs of her recent trial.J CHRISTMAS AT JOLIETTE.The Presbyterian congregation of Joliette held its annual Christmas festival on Thursday evening.Mr.N, M.Carswell, superintendent of the Sunday School, presided.The musical programme rendered by the children, with pleasing effect, was under the direction of the pastor, the Rev.Dr.Amaron, the accompaniments being played by Miss Nellle Copping.A trio by Miss Crabtree, Mr.Kay Crab- tree and Dr.Amaron was well received, as was a Scots reading by Mr.Carswell.The various dialogues and \u2018recitations by the children were well rendered.A well-laden Christmas tree rejoiced the eager eyes of the children, and Santa Claus was generous to all.The congregation showed their appreciation and affection for their pastor and his wife by presenting them with a fine wicker rocking chair.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NOTES AND NOTICES.To Quebec via the New Short Line.\u2014The attention of people intending to travel between Montreal and Quebec during the \"Holidays is drawn to the elegant Buffet Parlor and Sleeping Car Service provided by the Canadian Northern Quebec Rallway between these two citles\u2014a maximum of comfort at a niinimum charge.\u2014prnem_n NIG, the Fruit] pattern cuts.very useful to refer to from time to time.sign.sizes\u2014from 32 to 44 Inches bust meas © TL Brand\u201d Coffee Means The Certainty VE of Satistaction ty \u201cSeal Brand\u201d is more ' than a name, \" It is beth a Trademark and a guarantee, ; It is the trademark of the largest distributors of hig}.grade coffees in the word \u2014who guarantee the quality of every pound of coîfee they sell.Make sure that your coffee wil] be rich and delicious and appetizing, by always buying guaranteed coffee \u2014 Like \u201cSea] E Brand.\u201d In 1 and 2 pound sealed tins - never in bulk.At all grocers.CHASE & SANBORN : MONTREAL.110 = WESTMOUNT WATER Health Committee Issue Advice to Citizens to Take Precautions Against Typhoid.The Health Department of Wes mount has issued a special roti begging the citizens to take prerautir: against typhoid.\u2018During the last few weeks\" 1 notice states, \u2018the number of cuses | typhoid fever has far exceeded ar other year at this season; therefore we would strongly urge all person: in the city to refrain from dri:kin.tap water until it has been lil.\u2018The water supplied to the people © Westmount is evidently untt ILY : gine desde ce at dat | Ticker 5 faut sage io the Wolds SEE Roo À q 243 Fifth kve., New.Yark \\ GENERAL OFFICES AT ST.ADGUSTINS, MLA, Do \u2018So Much to Enjoy tal Epes, on nec oo BB BR 1 ay dh Keys at every class: om at all the South.ennis on < P ting and oa Fi on Wheel-ohair r Pul Leave terminal 1 tn stash e f : Sas aun 130 Adams SL, Chicago \u2014 CPE DOMINION LINE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS.\"Portland, Me., to Liverpool.REGULAR SAILINGS.Moderate Rate Service.ONE-CLASS CABIN STEAMERS.: (Called Second Class.) Canada.Jan.8 Feb.12 Mar.19 Dominion .Jan.29 Mar, 5 Apr.9 RATES OF PASSAGE PORTLAND TO LIVERPOOL.__ $45.00 and $47.50; $2.50 additional to ondon.According to Steamer.These steamers carry only one class of Cabin Passengers, to whom is given the accommodation situated in the best part of the vessel.This service is very popular to those desiring to make a trip in comfort, at a very reasonable rate.Port- Jand is less than 12 hours by rail from Montreal.Third Class carried in 2 and 4 berthed rooms.For all information apply to Local agents or MPANY'S OFFICE, 118 Notre Dame Street West, Montreal, wo BERMUDA By TWIN SOREW LINE.Largest and Fastest Steamers, 88.OCEANA.8,000 Tons 88.BERMUDIAN ALLAN LINE.TO LIVERPOOL.From From St.John Halitax.Corsican .«s +.Dec.31 Jan.1 Grampian .+.Jan.7 Jan.8 Tunisian .«esses .Jan.21 Jan.22 Corsican ., .+.Jan.28 Jan.29 The Turbine SS.Victorian has made the fastest passage on record between Liverpool and Montreal\u20146 days 15 hours 3 minutes.Saloon, $70.00 and up.Second Cabin: §47.50 and upward; London, $3.50 additional.Third Class, Liverpool, Glasgow, London, Belfast, or Londonderry, $38.75.BOSTON TO GLASGOW.Ionian, Jan.7.Pretorian, Jan.20 One-Class Cabin, called Second Cabin, $45.00.Third-Class, $27.75.TO HAVRE AND LONDON.MODERATE RATE SERVICE.From From St.John Halifax.Sardinian .Dec.29 Dec.31 One-Class \u2014Second Cabin.Rate.\u2014 London, $42.50: Havre, $45.00 and $50.00; Paris, $48.65, and up.Third-Class\u2014Lon- don, $27.75; Havre, $32.00; Paris, $34.50.All the steamers on the above servicesy Liverpool, Glasgow, London and Havre, are fitted with cold storage.H &% A.ALLAN, 85 Common Street, - - - - MONTREAL.Wireless on both Atearèrs : also bilge keels.Forty hours from Frost to Flowers.Sailings every Wednesday and Saturday from New York in the season.WaST INDIES.te tons ; 88.\u201c Korona,\u201d 3,000 tons, sail ORK every alternate Wednesday, for St.Thomas, St Croix, 8t.Kitts, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, 8t.Lucia, Barbadoes, end Demerara, For illustrated pamphiets, passages, and full particulars, poy to Quebe: Steamship Company's Ticket ts .H.Henry, 286 St.James st.: W.H.Clanoy, 130 St.James st.: J.G.Brock & Oo., 211 Com r Thomas Cook & Son, 530 St.Catherine st.W., Montreal PROFESSIONAL CARDS ee] ADVOCATES, BARRISTERS, 4, Et LIOTT & DAVID Advocatee.Barristers and Soliciters Commissioners for all the Province And for the States of Massachusotts and New York.Canada Life Bulidinx,189 $t James St Henry J.Elliott, K.O.L A, David SMITH, MARKEY, SKINNER, PUGSLEY & HYDE, A VOCATES, BARRISTERS, etc.ETROPOLITAN BUILDING, 179 ST.JAMES STREET.ROBT, C.SMITH, K.C., FRED.H.MARKEY, K.C WALDO W.SKINNER, WILLIAM G.PUGSLEY.G.GORDON HYDE.F.8.MACLENNAN, K.C Advocate, Barrister ang Soliciter New York Life Building, Montreal, Tel Main 4705 on \u2014\u2014 .Tel Main 3900 PATTERSON & ASTLE, Advocates; Barristers & Solicitors City & Distriot Bank Bullding, 180 St James atreet, Montreal, W.PATTERSON, T.F.ABTLR MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED BY , JOHN M.M.DUFF, toy St.James Street 49 Creseent Street MeMaster & Fapicv\u2026 Advocates and Solicitors Andrew R.McMaster Talbot M.Papineau canada Life Building, 189 8t.Jamee 8t Telephones Main 1749; 7833 Montreal PATENT ATTORNEYS, ATENTS {FLY SSEUAE i i Charged iene pATENTS, TRADE MARKS, ETO, C C.COUSINS Patent Solicitor Suite 308 N.¥.Lite Bldg.Te) M.S Expert personal Eitoution.FET Te .ER h AIR VARI VAR X0 PATENTS THAT PROTECT FETHERSTONHAUGH & OO; Chas W.Taylor, 5 Las Eraminer CANADA LIFR BUILDING, - MONTREAL OWEN N.EVANS PATENTS AND TRADE MARKS Merchants Rank Gulldinæ Mentres\u2019 SE ft Canadian North-West Land Regulations.Synopsis Sas must appear in.person at the Domi Lands Agency or Sub-Agency for the D .) en.\u201481 residence and cultivation Of the land In each\u2019 of three years.A homesteader ma within nine miles of his homestead on | farm of at least 80 acres solely owned snd occupied by him, or by his father, mother, son, daughter.brother or mister - in certaln d ee ana res tender n good = ng - & qua 00d a alongside his homestead.& LL per acre.Dutjes.\u2014Must reside g months each of six years from date © homestead entry (including the time required to homestead patents) and quitivate Afty acres extra.; A homestesdsr who has exhausted his = 8.ties.~Must reside six nthe @ t \u2018years, cultivate ety fects house Worth $800.00.N.i Ww.YY, of: the mister of the Date otirtisensant w mob Dientige of trict.Entry BY proxy may be made at live, homestead right and cannot obtain & ein and JOHN, M.B.TO LIVERPOOL.25 .Lake Champlain .Dec.31 .(Chartered) Corsican Jan.14 .Empress of Britain Jan.28.(Chartered) Corsican Feb.11 .Empress of Britain Feb.25 .KEinpress of Ireland Mer.11 .+ Empress of Britain Mar.19 .Lake Champlain ar.25 .Empress of Ireland April 2 .Lake Manitoba April 8.Empress of Britain April 16 .Lake Brie April 22 .Empress of Ireland April 30 .Lake Champlain May 6 .Empress of Britain : TO LONDON DIRECT.Jan .Mount Temple.\u201cEMPRESSES\u201d First Cabin.$82.50 and upwarda Second Cabin, $561.25 and $52.50.ONE-CLASS CABIN SHIPS.CALLED SECOND-CI.ASS.Lake Manitoba, $45.00 to $50.00.Lake Champlain, $47.50 and $50.00.Lake Erie, $47.50 and $50.00.Through tickets to London, $2.50 ex- a.\u201cEmpresses.to London.Liverpool.THIRD CLASS.Empres $30.00.Other Ships, $28.75.To Book Freight or Passage and for all further information, APPLY to CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP LINES, Board of Trade Building, St.Sacrament Street, Montreal REFORD AGENCIES.DONALDSON LINE TO GLASGOW ONE CLASS CABIN SERVICE.FROM ST.JOEN, W.B.T.S.S.ATHENIA (Cold Storage) Dec.25 8S.PARTHENIA (Cold Stqrage) Dec.30 Passage Rates\u2014Cabin (called Second) $45.00 and upwards: Third-Class, Eastbound, $27.75; Prepaid, Westbound, $28.75.THOMSON LINE TO LONDON , ME.FROM PORTLAND SS.CERVONA .\u2026.D (Cold Storage and Cool Air.) SS.HURONA .MEDITERBANBAN SERVICE Naples Direct.TWIN SCREW SS.TORTONA.THE ROBERT REFORD CO., Limited * Portland, Me.\u2014\u2014 NOTICE ply to the i said province to tice of the profession of the passing the required examinations.Montreal, 18th December, 1909.MEREDITH, LOST, STRAYED AND FOUND.Glasses.Dorchester Westmount.ee ROOMS AND BOARD.street, Telephone FURNISHED ROUMS, Wii uR WITHout board: bath, Englieh family, No.23 Overdale avenue, hetween Aquedget and A Mackay Homellke; centeul; moderate Any person who is the sole head of a terms.family, or any male aver: 18 | old.mA) able Dominion \u2018land in Soon.of Saskatchewan or Alberta.the applicant PARTNER WANTED.88,000, In a good payin pusiness; ten ercent guaranteed.ull particular Ladressing, W., 500, Witness* Office.- \"MISCELLANEOUS.ANY ONE NOT BEING ABLE TO GET a \u2018Witness\u2019 at bis vewsd im re w oblige tne publishers LY notifying the Subscription Department by tei e Main 4000, or by postcard.JOHN DOOGALL & SON.\u2018\\WVir:.-: RBuilôlag.Montreal.emm\u2014 \u2018PRINCIPAL BRANDT BEREAVED Phy many friends of the Rev: Prinoi Brandt and Mrs.Brandt, of Pointe- aux-Trembles schools, will learn with regret of the death of their nine months old child, Edgard, which took Place last Thursday night after a brief eo am.| cage and ec.25 (Cold Storage and Cool Air.) From From Portland, Me Halifax, N.S.APL 7 .eo ++ ++ oe vu + .ADL 9 Passage rates, $76.00 1st class, $35.00 3rd class.Montreal, Toronto, Quebec,St.John, N.B., is hereby given that WILLIAM JAMES BH of the City of Mont- redf, in the Province of Quebec, will ap- egislature of the Province of Quebec, at its next Session for the passing of an act authorizing the Bar of the admit him to the prac- law, after ACPHERSON, HAGUE & HOLDEN, Solicitors for the Applicant.LOST \u2014 PAIR GOLD FILLED EYE- ' Finder please address oo ACTIVE PARTNER WANTED, WITH \u2018SITUATIONS VACANT.SALESMAN WANTED, ABOUT FEB.1st, for general house-furnishing establishment in a town near Montreal.One with knowledge of French preferred.Must be total abstainer.Will pay good wages to the right man.Applicant to state age, experience, references, and salary expected.Address, Box G.429, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.SCHOOL BOYS BOYS WANTED to carry Newgpaprrs after school hours.Gobd pay.Beet re- ces required.Apply to \u2018Witness\u2019 EMPLOYMENT WANTED.ADVERTISER, DEVONIAN, SEEKS employment immediately, office work; smart writer; quick and accurale fg- ures; shorthand, typewriting.Address C.100, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.SITUATION WANTED BY First-Class Carpenter and Joiner; steady man; inside work preferred.Apply 422 Clark street, Annex.PUPILS WANTED.WANTED, EVENING CLASSES IN Mechanical Engineering and Draughting, by a Machinist.Hleasu address, with terms, etc, R.M.B., care of \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.\u2014 TEAUMERS WANTED.WANTED, FOR RIVER DESERT School, a (Protestant) l'emale Teacher, holding first class dip.oma.Dut.es to commence January 4th, 1910.Sa.ary $30 per month.Apply to W.SMILL Secretary-Treasurer, River Lesert O., Que.ENTERTAINMENTS GIVEN.CHARLES COOMBES, THE VENTRILO- _Quist, etc.342 Charlevoix street, city.WANTED.MUTOR WANTED, D.C, 110.ABOUT 6 H.P.Would pay cash or arrange swap for 10 H.P.Telephone Mr.Mo- GLAUGHLIN, Main 4090.WANTED, CURLING STONES\u2014WANT=- ed, second hand pair Curling {rone.Ad~ dress, HEATHER, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.VETERAN LAND GRANTS.SOUTH AFRICAN VETERAN LAND warsants\u2014augouwst price pag for souls African Veterun Land Wurcanus.Apply to LEV L.Lal, Moom UT, Merchants Bank Building, 200 St.James street.Tel.Main 79.SOUTH AFRICAN VETERANS.À am buyiug houth African Lund Grants 86 the miguest price.It wil pay you te write Or 566 Due before selling.T.GIRARD, #90 8t.Catherine hast, Mont.FOR SALE.FOR SALE \u2014 IRON PIPES, All Sizes; also Radiators and Colls.Shaun Belting, Cheap.WASTE & METAL ce.street.Phone Main 4959.PRESSES FOR SALE \u2014 ONE LARGE two-revolution, tapeless delivery, Potter book press, and one large Poster Whitlock, for sale at a bargain, for prompt purchaser.Apply at \u201cWite ness Office, 140 St.Peter street HOIST, FOR SALE CHEAP\u2014One Doa- - ble belted floor type freight hoist, with w 8, in good condition; platform 6 x 5 feet; fuily 1500 Ibs.ca- ; paaity.Counter shatts, puliey and 1 spiandid H.P.motor; 110 D.C.inciud- .ed, 1s, desired.Apply to 142 BL Peter stree SHALTING, AND PULLEYSIN GRLAT or | Sel, nets cheap\u201d 400Ù at FOR SALE.Two Copylog Presses, 3 Safes, 1 Roll Top Desk, 1 Plat Top pesk, THE TIMMIS NOBLE CO., Stationers.315 St.James street, Montreal NEW TYPEWRITERS FOR SALE CHEAP, some new Canadian Standard Oliver Typewriters, of Number 2, 3 and.4 Models, fully guaranteed, worth $97.50, to be acid at $36 walle they last, to make room for new modein Splendid opportunity.Call, or write at onc Canadian Oliver Typewriter Co, t Martin street.Fire-Pruat TO LET.TO LET, IN ST.LAMBERT, TWO houses; one has ten apartments, heated by a \u2018Daisy\u2019 furnace, with a good fruit and vegetable garden attached; the other contains six rooms and a summer kitchen, with a small garden and shade trees in front of both houses.The location is excellent, and the houses are in good order.Rent very moderate.Satisfactory reasons given for their being unoccupied.Apply to Mr.R.McGLAUGHLIN, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, or Mr.JOHN BEATTY, in rear of the premises to let, St.Lam- ert.ue FLATS TO LET.Leur Guitole fur @ vœau fanny 21 ulm uF sm st Montreal Bouth.Apply box bA.° 44 \u2018Witmeus\u2019 Offies.Ceememete FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET.TO LET, COMFORTABLY FURNISHED bright front bedroom, bathroom floor, rivate family; no other roomers.37 ilton street, close to St.Lawrence and Park avenue cars; fifieen minytes\u2019 we,k to post-office.Gefitlemen.WEST BND, 8 CliUucu : «1 REST, well furnished room, bath floor, Auer light, hot water Bea UNURHHILL PLACE, NO.1, LARGM front perior, bedroem alcely for two gentlemen of married couple; also small furnished \u2018 wt a Epes